NEW YORK (AP) — All this time I've been hate-watching and I never even knew it. Turns out, ‘‘hate-watch’’ is a fancy term for watching shows you don’t like but get perverse satisfaction from. Hate-watching is a sport that used to fall under the broad term ‘‘guilty pleasure,’’ but now seems retrofitted for the age of social media. It goes something like this: You watch a show you wouldn’t choose to watch for any reason other than to mock it for its awfulness — say, by sharing snide Twitter exchanges with like-minded hate-watchers when the program airs. Collective delight. Lately, hate-watching seems to have flourished at the expense of NBC’s drama-focused-on-a-Broadway-musical, ‘‘Smash.’’ But as I think back through my years in front of the TV, ... Continue reading →
Watching spectacularly bad TV shows for the sheer pleasure of mocking them with your friends is not new — remember Mystery Science Theater 3000 mocking bad movies? — but the advent of social media may have turned it into a sport for a small group of TV viewers. Now there’s a term for it, “hate watching” and the occasional #hatewatching hashtag, to boot. It’s unclear where the term “hate watching” began, but a New Yorker column by Emily Nussbaum, “Hate-watching Smash,” has popularized it. That story sparked a Slate podcast, then a Slate column and now an AP column, “How to find joy in TV you scorn.” AP columnist Frazier Moore found a hate-watching example stretching back to the pre-social 90s — a snarky weekly ... Continue reading →
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NEW YORK — All this time I've been hate-watching and I never even knew it. Turns out, "hate-watch" is a fancy term for watching shows you don't like but get perverse satisfaction from. Hate-watching is a sport that used to fall under the broad term "guilty pleasure," but now seems retrofitted for the age of social media. It goes something like this: You watch a show you wouldn't choose to watch for any reason other than to mock it for its awfulness – say, by sharing snide Twitter exchanges with like-minded hate-watchers when the program airs. Collective delight. Lately, hate-watching seems to have flourished at the expense of NBC's drama-focused-on-a-Broadway-musical, "Smash." But as I think back through my years in front of the TV, I ... Continue reading →
advertisement Whither Dr. Gregory House? Would the cantankerous hero of the Fox medical drama mend his ways or self-destruct for all time? That was the mystery as "House" barreled to its conclusion Monday night. In a recent interview, series star Hugh Laurie had teased that House was coming to the edge of a precipice eight years in the making: "Is he gonna step forward or step back? Is it life or is it death?" Viewers were rewarded with a satisfying answer in the one-hour finale. (Caution: Read no further if you want to preserve the surprise.) The episode began with a typical example of House's bedside manner. Patient: "I was in a car accident last month." House: "I won a swimming trophy in high school. ... Continue reading →
