There are too many shows on TV. Who can watch all of these shows?

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“It’s too much,” says Albert Burneko. “I am not up to date on what’s going on in the storylines of a dozen actual living human beings, and that’s without setting aside 12 hours a day to watch shows about superheroes.” He adds: "Now there are like 5,000 shows all at the same time, and they’re all an hour long, and each episode of each one is different and fully serialized, so you have to watch the prior one to know what the hell is happening in the next one. And then each one is attended by a constellation of dedicated blogs and podcasts and vaguely frightening subreddits where shut-ins advance bizarre theories about minor plot points. You bump into your co-worker in the break room and he goes “Hey man did you check out [list of podcasts for each of the 715 shows he watched] last night [somehow]” and of course the answer is no, because it’s literally not possible to do that without violating the laws of physics, and that’s the end of that interaction because of course your coworker has not had time to develop anything else to talk about, between all the shows.”