The Truth of Binge-watching: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Avatar: The Last Airbender. All great shows that have been binge watched by millions of people. But is it really good for you? Binge-watching is when you watch a lot of episodes of a show or TV series consecutively. Scientists and researchers have many different views on whether it's good or bad. In my opinion, binge-watching is bad for you since it can hurt you physically and mentally. Binge-watching has many physical health risks that can even be life threatening. The National Institutes for Health, a well-respected medical research center, states that “ a mostly sedentary lifestyle is causally linked to a number of poor health outcomes, including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, strokes, excessive weight gain, …show more content…
That’s how binge-watching leads to physical health risks. Now how can it lead to mental health issues? Well, “An August 2017 report in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, finds binge-watching is connected to poorer sleep quality, increased fatigue, and insomnia symptoms. Here, the researchers found a state of engagement while binge-watching doesn’t allow the brain to shut itself down”(Barhum). Just imagine how much of a nuisance it would be to feel tired all the time.Just because you watched TV shows for too long. That’s how binge-watching hurts you mentally. While binge-watching can make you happy and forget about stressful things going on, it’s not always a good thing. If it really makes you happy, it can cause an addiction that won’t be good for your health. It might also relieve stress, but wasting hours of your time probably isn’t the way to go. A study in PROS/CONS: Binge-watching said that “...binge-watching actually worsened stressful feelings like regret, guilt and personal
The panoply of programs a television provides allows a viewer to search for new interests and inspires them to do new things. I, for one, can attest to this, as my knowledge of baseball was limited as a child, until one day I decided to watch a broadcast of the San Francisco Giants; now I am a baseball superfan with friends from all over the country who share in this interest, and also a softball player who exercises every day. I did not become a couch potato from my experiences with television, but rather, a happier, healthier
Winn, Marie. “Television Addiction” The McGraw-Hill Reader. 8th ed. Ed. Gilbert Muller, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 505-507
In the world today watching television is so addictive that everything else looks unattractive. The author argues that television is not lethal as drugs and alcohol but it can have many effects such as children getting more violent and reality seem second best. Every person lives are filled with emotions including anxiety, depression, and stress so after long hard work day the best medicine is to turn the television on and not to worry about anything. For example, I usually drive from site to site to take care of business. So when I return home from work I will sit on my couch and turn the television on and flick the channel until I fall to sleep. As Marie Winn describes, "the television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and e...
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Analysis, Karen Russell While reading over this short story, I wondered what others may have assumed of the title, plot and overall content. So I researched published reviews, to compare the themes taken from the story. The plot was quite simple considering the structure was a short story. Fifteen sisters of both human and werewolf species were given to a five-stage program. Allowing the sisters to experience a “better life” away from their parents, who were of the werewolves species.
Television, or screen time, has become a large part of today's society. Whether it's by way of smart-phones, a television, a computer, or a tablet, screen time has negative effects on the cognitive ability of children and adolescents. It has even been proven that it can lead to Alzheimer's disease when a person, in the age range of 20-60 years old, views an hour more than the recommended amount of screen time a day (Sigman 14). In children, the amount of screen time viewed has a relationship with the likelihood of developing a deficit in his attention span; the longer a child views screen time, the more likely he is to be diagnosed with an attention disorder. Screen time, or television, can cause attention disorders and other problem with cognitive abilities in children and adolescents that effect the education they can comprehend.
As long as a balanced lifestyle is maintained, binge watching can be quite healthy. For some people, binge viewing can be a great stress reliever and provide a type of television therapy (Matrix 129). For example, stressed out students regularly rely on binge viewing to immersive themselves in another world for the pleasure of leaving their own stressful lives (Matrix 129). Binge watching provides an escape from the pressures and anxieties of everyday life, giving consumers an outlet to getaway and immerse themselves in an activity, which has dramatically less damaging consequences than other outlets that stressed out individuals use to escape, such as drugs and
We've come to a point where television has become so loaded with “vampire-this” and “werewolf-that,” that each show has begun to look like the reruns of another. Luckily, this definitely isn't the case for creator Vince Gilligan's, Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad follows the life of Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), an ordinary high school chemistry teacher. With a loving wife and teenage son at home, over time, Walter has formed an exceedingly mundane routine for his life. After soon discovering that he had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, Walter decided to take extreme measures in order to secure his family financially. Eventually, he would descend into a world so dark and utterly twisted, that it would eventually consume him. Walter White became Heisenberg; the greatest drug lord the streets had ever seen. As he ascended in status within the drug cartel, the love and trust he had from his family and friends quickly descended. There are thousands of reasons that explain why millions of people tune into Breaking Bad. This series offers a much needed relief from the Dracula descendents, which frankly, are slowly diminishing any scope of variety existing on television. Because of the outstanding acting, seemingly distorted reality, and uniquely relatable storyline and characters, this hit show tops the charts as the best modern-day television series that cable has to offer.
The amount of opportunities we get to eat unhealthy food while watching TV is also a reason for becoming obese. Most of us like to enjoy a snack while watching our favorite TV show, which result to a horrible mixture. You could be eating a new opened bag of chips and the next thing you notice the bag is empty. This happens because we are too focused on whatever we are watching to realize
The Breaking Bad universe is a place full of crime, greed, murder, and deception. A world where people step over to get what they want. At the forefront of this world is Jimmy McGill or better known as Saul Goodman, a low life criminal who decides to turn his life around and become a lawyer because of a promise he made to his brother, also a lawyer, to get him out of jail after Jimmy runs into legal trouble. He stays on a straight path, but ultimately he is pushed into being a criminal lawyer because he isn’t a successful lawyer and ran into trouble with the cartel. In both Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul, Saul Goodman is one of, if not the most important characters in the show.
Not being able to stop when you know you should. Winn quotes Lawrence Kubie ‘The measure of health is flexibility… and especially the freedom to cease when sated” (315). By not stopping and going to bed or going to the gym you are not giving your body the things that it needs. Proper sleep and exercise are critical to one’s health. There have been several times when I started watching something and couldn’t stop. I knew I needed to get up for work the next day or even go to the gym but I couldn’t. I felt a need to continue to watch. I would then get less sleep than what I should have and by not doing some other physical activity, begin to gain weight. I couldn’t tell you how many times a coworker has mentioned that they feel awful due to staying up too late watching some show that they just had to
According to experts, children who watch too much TV tend to be less interested in physical activity, often develop verbal skills more slowly and tend to be less confident in social situations.
In the argumentative essay “T.V. Addiction” by Marie Winn, Winn relates watching television to having an addiction with drugs and alcohol. The television experience allows us to escape from the real world and enter into a pleasurable and peaceful mental state. When it comes to television, Marie asks the following question: Is there a kind of television viewing that falls into the more serious category of destruction addiction? I believe there is. Why do so many people, instead of doing what they’re supposed to be doing, put everything on hold and just focus on television? I think this is because they want an escape from their problems.
When television first came on the market about fifty years ago, families had one television at the most in the household, and most families only used the television for the news or for an occasional show or two. Today, it is a rarity if you find only one television in a household. Most families have numerous televisions in their house and use it more and more for entertainment purposes. People of all ages are addicted to television. On average, people watch about thirty hours of television a week. But the people who go beyond this mark are known to society as “couch potatoes';.
To many children, TV can be appealing because they find the colorful cartoons interesting and instantly catches their attention. But, as entertaining and fun Television can be, spending too much time looking at your big fifty inch flat screen TV can eventually impact your life. It seems like if you just spend all your time sitting on the couch, you may find yourself preparing fast meals, such as a ham sandwich thrown with some potato chips on a plate or just driving to buying something from McDonald’s. But this can eventually affect your health. If we give Television too much attention it can also affect relationships with parents, siblings or a partner. It can slowly become an easy addiction to come home to, sit on the couch and spend the rest of the day watching all the shows we like. Lastly, too much Television can affect our mood which can lead to certain thinking and
One of the physiological effects of watching television in excessive amounts is eye-strain. It is true that there are specifications for watching television; television should be 5 m. away from the eye, the room should be adequately lit, television should be placed at the same height with our eyes, etc. However, these do not prevent our eyes from getting tired if we keep watching television for a long time. Another effect is obesity, which is widely observed in people who like watching television and eating snacks everyday (there is even a term “television snacks” to refer to fast food that is suitable for eating in front of the television). television is such a powerful machine that people cannot get away from it – it is addictive. Apart from the physiological effects, television also causes psychological effects. One is a result of being exposed to