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Why Do We Love to Hate-Watch TV?

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a TV show you hate-watch? As streaming platforms and their algorithms collect more data on the types of shows we like to watch, they feed us shows that are so close to something we’ve loved in the past, but something about them is off. What starts as an earnest TV show tune-in becomes a show you can’t stop complaining about at happy hour. As New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson writes, “you can only hate-watch a show that you theoretically should have loved.” We’ll talk with Wilkinson about how a hate-watch is different from a guilty pleasure, why we participate in this weird cultural phenomenon, and we hear from you: What are you hate-watching? Guests: Alissa Wilkinson, movie critic, New York Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, do you have a TV show you hate watch?

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Or as Alyssa Wilkinson describes, spend precious time plop in front of a bad show to pick it apart?

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Maybe Emily in Paris. Or did your hate watch even win an Emmy last night?

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Yes, hate watching has become part of the cultural conversation and arguably contemporary life,

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Wilkinson says. But why? This hour, we look at why we do this to ourselves. And also how it's

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helped along by streaming services and the phenomenon

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of doom scrolling. Forum is next after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. It starts as an earnest TV show tune-in, then becomes a show you

2:20.8

cannot stop complaining about at Happy Hour, and yet you cannot stop watching it. Those are the

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ingredients of a hate watch, and like it or not, it's a thing. New York Times film critic Alyssa

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