Writing and watching.
Had a friend ask me -after I asked her does she watch P Valley?
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9340526/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
She said “of course” then asked why haven’t I watched season one? Writing.
Many non-writers may never get this point. It’s hard to watch -for me at least new shows -while writing. A movie is one thing but a brand new 10 hour story arch?
Can’t do it. It will have to wait. In fact that’s how I watch things.
https://deadline.com/feature/midseason-premiere-dates-2022-new-returning-series-broadcast-cable-streaming-1234765269/amp/
I don’t binge. Never have. Why should I? Everything (only tv shows)gets two hours.
Missing out? On what exactly? Peak tv? So.
Didn’t our parents warn us about if our friends jumped off a cliff…?
We all saw classics made way before our time. Don’t know about you but a lot of those classics were bangers.
Despite the fact I saw them on cable, on a 19” CRT “big butt” tv. Funny Chinatown wasn’t affected by this.
Also a lot of hot garbage gets pulled in to the must watch category. The Honey Boo Boo’s and Tiger Kings are not worth a second of my time.
https://collider.com/tiger-king-is-trash-tv/
I’d rather watch 80’s porn that had those silly plots-yea I’d watch those without the sex as opposed to the aforementioned one two combo.
I watched Stranger Things season 3 well after the fact(damn near a year after I debuted), I’ll do like wise for whatever else is hot at the moment.
The fact that originally made programming never leaves its platform is even more of a reason to write now and watch later. Billions, Euphoria, Ozark ain’t going nowhere.
https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/future-of-tv-briefing-how-major-streamers-are-stepping-up-the-fight-for-subscribers/
Given these crazy ideas that come along when writing aren’t guaranteed. So when they are flying out of my head I must get them down.
What I will do is watch things I’ve seen a million times. Mix up the content from my adolescence years, early adulthood and something recent.
That way I work the writers muscle and if moved I can add to my current story in the moment. No pausing the show or worst getting too engrossed in a (paid) writers story which is all new to me.
Ok cool but then when am I going to finish my “new” story”?
It ain’t gonna write itself…or will it…?
Last, the real culprit is the very much non film related nine to five. The eleven hours it takes from my time is real -eight at the gig and about an hour and change commute-both ways. Then there’s that just walked in the door unwind…that’s the real reason why it’s hard to write and watch.
Somebody’s got to do it!
In March 2020 when it was so dead at my job I could work on my pilots all damn day then go home and watch whatever I wanted.
No sports, so hey what else was there for me to indulge in? But that isn’t the case now (for the record I’ve had no time off from work due to Covid).
Now it’s somewhat business as usual and add the heat my real estate pilot has generated, things have shifted.
For the moment I do have some time to watch more shows. The veteran actor who likes my real estate pilot is overseas filming. So I was able to finish season three of Ozark and watched the pilot to P Valley.
I also like the one week a show model. It works when I’m swamped yet want to stay in the mix. I use it as goal post. For example Snowfall and Atlanta are coming back by the spring. I’ll crank out work till they debut but once they do it’s just one show that week.
Besides with over five hundred shows out there I’m not even trying to front like I’m up on all of them. That’s for the fans. (I should add I can’t watch a thing on network sorry but the commercials-I just can’t anymore. I wind up watching them on platforms with none or very little ads).
