He Only Watches Important Films and I Have Never Been So Tired
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Evergreen. Emma went on a date with a guy who spent 45 minutes explaining that he only watches 'important' films — named Kubrick three times in the first hour, had never seen a single television show on purpose. She recaps it in three acts: the promising opener (he had a strong jawline and ordered without looking at the menu), the mid-date collapse (the Kubrick speech, the condescension about streaming, the moment she realized he thought liking TV was a personality flaw), and the button: she got home and watched three episodes of a cancelled TNT drama and felt nothing but peace.
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Okay so. He had a strong jawline and ordered without looking at the menu. I thought: this is a person who has his life together. I was wrong in a very specific way.
The Kubrick thing started around the forty-minute mark. First mention: fine, whatever, 2001 is a movie that exists. Second mention: slightly more aggressive. Third mention, paired with the sentence "I just think television rewards passivity," and I had to take a very long sip of water while I decided who I wanted to be for the rest of the evening. He had never watched a television show on purpose. Not one. He said "on purpose" like that was a flex. Like the medium that gave us The Sopranos and I May Destroy You and approximately four hundred other things that changed my life was a personality flaw I needed to be talked out of. He was not asking questions. He was delivering a verdict.
I got home at 10:15. Put on a cancelled TNT drama — Perception, cancelled after three seasons, criminally under-discussed. Watched three episodes. Made tea. Felt nothing but peace. My spreadsheet has a column called "would rewatch drunk." It has thirty-seven entries. Not a single Kubrick film is on it. I feel very good about this.
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he said television rewards passivity. i said nothing. i went home and watched three episodes of a cancelled tnt drama and felt at peace. #dating #tvobsessed #entertainment #silverlakeliving
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