I started watching shows at 1.5x speed and now I can't go back
I know people are gonna hate this but I don't care. I was stuck in a rut where I'd start a new show, watch 3 episodes over like 2 weeks, and then drop it because it felt like such a time commitment. My backlog got so bad I literally had 11 shows sitting in my queue and I was watching none of them. So about 2 months ago I said screw it and bumped the playback speed to 1.5x just to see if I could power through this one slow drama everyone kept telling me to watch. It felt weird for the first episode but by the second one my brain just adjusted and now when I go back to normal speed everything sounds like it's in slow motion. I finished that whole 10 episode season in 2 days and it honestly did not ruin the experience at all, I still caught all the plot beats and the acting still landed. My roommate thinks I'm a psycho and says I'm not watching the show the way the director meant it, but who has that kind of free time anymore? Has anyone else done this or am I really the only one ruining TV for myself?