Why, Hello, Television

Up until recently, I could say that I didn’t watch TV. At all. Sure, I had a TV, but no cable, so it was only ever used for movies on DVD. I moved out of my mother’s house in 2005 and hadn’t watched much of anything since. Then, about a month ago, we got Netflix. (I did mention I’m a late adopter, right?) We haven’t been binging like most people do — one or two episodes a week is about all we watch. So far, at least. (My media addiction of choice is the Internet.) So we’re catching up (very very slowly) on Doctor Who, Sherlock, and of all things, Buffy, which I never watched when it was on…and enjoying them all thoroughly. Oddly enough, all of these series have some things in common, if you squint.

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