entertainment

Committing myself to a series, especially if the show goes on for multiple sessions is a big decision. I watch tv so little that I wouldn't want to waste my time on just about any show. 

It's hard yo judge beforehand. Good story or book adaption doesn't guarantee a good show. Original story can be as good as a literary classic and even those classics can be ruined by so many things. Not least by the high expectations they tend to raise.

With books I can always switch to fast reading if I find the story uninteresting or slow. It's harder to speed up videos. 

I used to watch those shows only occasionally. And only one or two at the time. I didn't get that many series watched. But at least I didn't spend too much time on them either.

They started to pile up. I had to weed out shows from my watchlist and curate the shows I watched carefully. Until I finally got the list down enough and had some extra time to watch them all.