Continuing our series on viewing habits in self-isolation, one writer finds peace is restored by online restoration videos. Roll on the barn find oil lamp!
It’s a probably not the greatest, most productive skill to be proud of, but my ability to watch hours and hours of TV was always something that, I felt, set me apart from other people. At my peak, if you can call it that, I thought nothing of spending six, seven hours with the same show. I once devoured an entire series of 24 on DVD in one sitting, and consumed all 86 episodes of The Sopranos in 13 days. In my defence, with the latter, I had just been made redundant and had nothing better to do. Plus, it made staying in my dressing gown all day look like cosplay, rather than mild depression.
I always had other hobbies, and I’ve always enjoyed going outside, but if I set my mind to TV, that’s what I did without much thought for anything else.