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TOP 25. Best Time Wasters on TV from the past 12 months

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14 pointschippi19 comments

I guess I don't understand what this kickstarter is sellling. I'm pretty confused :-( Maybe someone can explain it like I'm 5?

Well, that is an update only. The actual project is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/masyk/tv-tracker-auto-m...

Thank you, this makes a lot more sense now. If it can actually work the way it says it can then it might actually be useful.

"Maybe someone can explain it like I'm 5?"

I've noticed most kids enjoy watching the same show multiple times, so think of this product as a tool to create the exact opposite of what you'd like. On the other hand your parents might enjoy it because adults tolerance for repeated watching seems very low.

That graphic is also terribly wrong.

The Walking Dead has had 51 episodes. Each episode is about 43 minutes. That's just over 36 1/2 hours of content; not 3 days and 15 hours as the infographic suggests.

Rounding off to the hour when the information can be readily scraped from a number of websites would be a pretty big oversight if this was a service.

I guess I'd have to argue that you aren't wasting time at all if you are being entertained. At the end of the day everything is just going to be a series of memories. Whether you enjoyed yourself going outside and being active or watching a great show it all ends up pretty much the same.

I wish I had more time to waste on those cool shows. This is the best time I can waste, better than games :)

No joke, I didn't even realize this was a kickstarter. There is no information about the kind of tracker they are trying to write. There are also so many alternatives that solve this problem already that I don't even care.

Examples: http://trakt.tv/ http://anilist.co/

Article should note its US bias - this looks like exclusively Hollywood stuff.

Meanwhile, recently I've enjoyed Borgen, Bron, Akta Manniskor, Green Wing...

Edit: correction taken, there are a few UK shows - maybe the criterion is English language.

No, there's Sherlock and Dr Who. I love DR Who by the way

Thanks for reminding me about Akta Manniskor; I forgot that a second season of that was coming, and now I can watch it all at once:)

I could never get into Sherlock. I've tried several times because others love it. And I like detective stories. I really can't figure out what it is, too slow?

If you are willing to give it a shot again, do yourself a favor; read up on the plot of the original Doyle work. Each episode is based on the original works.

When you see how brilliantly they modernized the work you might find new enjoyment.

As an example, "A Study in Pink" ("A Study in Scarlet") has Holmes examining Watson's mobile phone and making all sorts of clever deductions. In the original, it was a pocket watch...but all the same deductions can still be made.

It's not for everyone, but it is well written.

Wow interesting. I had no idea. So what story would season 2 episode 1 correspond to?

"A Scandal in Bohemia"

Does it say where this list of "the best of" came from? Some of those shows do not deserve to be listed on the same page as The Newsroom, let alone above of it.

then throw in all the time the diehard fans waste on sites devoted to the shows even subs on reddit.

Still as someone else mentioned, is it truly wasted time if you derive entertainment from it? Definitely a first world problem if it is.

I wonder how much time people waste on commercials within these shows as well - that's the real waste of time.

During commercials is when I get my work done.

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