Just finished bingeing all eight seasons of Psych<\/i>. Amazing TV show, which began with a wonderful conceit and then proceeded to executed it flawlessly.<\/p>\n
Bingeing a series over a short period of time allows you to see it in a different light. Episodes seen back to back read less like a series of weekly offerings and more like a novel.<\/p>\n
And that makes it easier to see how the writers are thinking. A show can be entertaining week to week, but it’s the long term character arcs, the evolving relationships — platonic or otherwise — that truly hold an audience’s interest.<\/p>\n
Which is not really surprising. What we humans really care about, at the end of the day, is the relationships between our fellow humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just finished bingeing all eight seasons of Psych. Amazing TV show, which began with a wonderful conceit and then proceeded to executed it flawlessly. Bingeing a series over a short period of time allows you to see it in a different light. Episodes seen back to back read less like a series of weekly offerings … Continue reading “Bingeing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24371,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions\/24371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}