I, like many other people, are professional streamers. We can easily sit online from morning til night on our days off streaming shows, movies and documentaries like it’s our other form of employment. However, there are times when you can’t find a good show to watch and you end up with a sort of “watchers block” which is akin to “writer’s block” where a writer runs out of ideas to write about. But for a streamer you can spend a long time strolling through the thumbnails on a site til you run out of choices. It’s a very sobering moment when you’ve pillaged a website and have either watched everything or there’s nothing that interests you because you’ve watched all genres with decent titles.
For me, I was tired of American television’s one note approach to Television and movies. If they aren’t cranking out substandard remakes of the classics, they are rebooting old shows, or following the same predictable formulas that are just redundant. The recycling of the same batch of actors, the overly violent and/or sexual themes, and the rapid cancelling of good shows made me disenchanted with American television.
I finally decided to watch shows from other countries just to cleanse my palate of the visual fodder that American television has become. I came across British/English television and I was hooked!
Between the crime shows, romance, comedy, and even sci-fi genres, British television is stellar in every way. The writers are mindful of their audience and gives us great storylines that we can sink our teeth into. But I found that British telly, unlike American television, did not have a lot of shows. The main issues was I would get sucked into a storyline and just like that, the show would end. No new season. No resolution to the first season. It was infuriating. It’s like starting a great book and midway through, the remaining pages are blank. After finding three or four British shows like this, I was pretty much done with them. So on to Nollywood!
Nigerian television while refreshing felt very minstrel show. The few with decent acting, were often really low budget and didn’t keep my interest. So I strayed back to American television until end of season on a few of the shows I did watch.
One day I ran into a “KDrama” and that was all she wrote.
