"Not second screen enough" – Netflix dumbing down TV for phone usage

I found out recently that my partner was "listening" and half looking at a TV show while preparing herself for work. I was quite surprised and asked her if she had run out of podcasts but she told me that show was so addictive she preferred running it in the background than waiting for it. It obviously made her inefficient at everything, preparing herself and following the show.

I've often found most US TV shows were overexplaining everything already. Maybe I have an higher cultural, technical and medical knowledge than the baseline of US TV viewers but lots of dialogs are already filled with what feels to me as unneeded explanations in general that would feel completely weird in a real life dialog.

I am like the opposite of the binge watcher, after one, two episodes at the maximum, I just want to do something else. It works well with my habit of watching movies and TV shows on a projector as it has a kind of ritual to it, you shut off the blinders, turn on the projector and sit comfortably on the sofa. My partner often do not understand how I can I just say "that's it, let's do something else" and shut off the beamer when the show obviously make sure it ends the episode with a moment of uncertaincy/suspense.

Telenovelas were always the thing. They are what they are because they were designed to be watched while doing other things without feeling regret when the other thing requires attention.

Binge the next season of "Ow! My balls!", now on Netflix!

Soon Netflix will have Subway Surfers running alongside the movie.

When I was a child I looked down on my mom for watching crap.

Later I realised that as a therapist she just wanted to shut her brain off after dealing with incest stories all day long.

My new Netflix show is an endless loop of toasters with wings flying through space. There will also be bread doing some flying.

6 month old article (pulled from recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567683 ?), lots of discussion on the source:

Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529756

So back to old TV? Pre-internet old TV series were always slow and clear enough to allow you to follow them even if you were paying half attention

The tiktok-ification of netflix is coming. Good. Let the internet burn so we can start over.

This is a pathetic example of what happens when entire generations are attention-starved from never not having a screen in front of them...