Whenever a friend tells us they ate an entire pizza at two in the morning, drank a whole bottle of whisky, or did all the drugs Hunter S. Thompson mentions in the first paragraph of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, we laugh—but we laugh with concern.
Because fun as doing all that may be, it’s sometimes a sign that things aren’t quite copasetic. “Everything alright?” you tend to ask. Yet when someone brags about binge-watching the entire first season of House of Dragon or some other show in one weekend, we’re like, “Nice.”
Now obviously, drugs and whisky and late-night pizzas are more immediately bad for your health, especially when you do them all at the same time like I did Tuesday afternoon. It’s a bit odd, though, how so many people feel the need to consume multiple hours of show in one sitting like a duck that swallows without chewing.
Granted, I’ve done it multiple times. What was I supposed to do that day? Read? See people? Grow as a person? That’s preposterous. Better to spend that…
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