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While we are actually watching it, television (or movies), “displays all the features of short experiential time,” writes Rosa—intense action, emotional engagement, all those quick cuts, and so on. Time flies by. But once the show is over, “the remembered time rapidly shrinks.” Rather than seeming long in retrospect, as the classic psychological model has it, much of it vanishes. “Decontextualized” and “de-sensualized,” (i.e., we don’t touch, smell, or taste it), Rosa argues, there is little to hang on to after the fact. You binge-watch an entire season in a heady, compressed two-day period, and then what? As Rosa notes, studies have shown that people “express higher satisfaction during the activity of watching TV than after.”
Tom Vanderbilt, ‘The Pleasure and Pain of Speed’
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