Salon.com > hate-watching http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hate-watching “Smash” is one of life’s great pleasures http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/hate_watching_smash_is_one_of_lifes_great_pleasures/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/hate_watching_smash_is_one_of_lifes_great_pleasures/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13191447 “Hate-watching” is a not a properly descriptive term: “Hate-watching,” when truly practiced, is a joyful experience. If one truly dislikes a show — finds it boring or offensive — one does not watch at all. Watching, one does not feel a rush of bitchy glee at the ridiculous heights the show scales, the incidental lunacy it achieves. Hate-watching is what happens when you turn into your most judgmental self and start pointing and laughing, but without feeling a twinge of guilt or shame that your time could be better spent. The object of your derision is not unworthy, it's not just some god-awful TV show — it is a god-awful TV show with pretensions and the ability to surprise you, even if it is only with new lows. Hate-watching a show is not the same as loving it, but, as ever, hate and love bear a passing resemblance: They are the feelings reserved for that which you are most passionate about.

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