(June 4, 2025 at 2:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 4, 2025 at 2:20 pm)emjay Wrote: Die Qual der Wahl... German for "the agony of choice"... Why's it so hard finding something new to watch?... can spend hours window shopping in Netflix and still be no closer to deciding what to watch next.
Too right. I spend as much, if not more, time searching than I do watching. We’re spoilt for choice.
When I was a lad, we had three channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC2, and, if the weather was right, RTE from the Republic. There was technically a fourth - Ulster Television, but Da wouldn’t allow it in the house.
Boru
Yep, for me it was the big four... BBC1, 2, ITV and the ever controversial, at the time anyway, Channel 4...then we felt spoilt for choice when Channel 5 came, full of daytime TV and crime dramas like CSI.
Anyway in the end just decided to jump straight into one without thinking too much about it... Black Mirror on Netflix; I get the feeling it's going to be something like XFiles or the Outer Limits, in the sense of self contained episodes of weird stuff, with different actors each episode. I may be wrong but if it is that, there's definitely something nice about having no expectations whatsoever and having a completely fresh story each time. The Outer Limits was really cool for that very reason.
