Hot take: watching shows at 1.5x speed ruined two good series for me

I started speeding up shows about 6 months ago to get through my watchlist faster, and my wife finally called me out on it during dinner in Spokane. I burned through all 62 episodes of a drama in under two weeks, but I could not tell her a single character's name by the end. Turns out the slow parts are where the show builds the stuff you actually remember. So now I am rewatching one of them at normal speed and catching jokes and small details I missed the first time. Anyone else gone down this road, and did you ever go back to watching things the regular way?

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joelharris19d ago

My buddy Dave did this with The Wire and missed half the plot.

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