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#AskBR – Rewind 2020
Posted on December 24, 2020
Baradwaj Rangan 
Rahini David
December 25, 2020
And this was fun.
So how do you people generally manage your “To Watch” or “To be read” lists? It is almost too stressful to choose right, no? I have been more into reading this year and each time I choose a book, I feel 1000 other books are judging me for making a stupid choice by not choosing them.
I guess people face the same with movies.
#FirstWorldProblems #MerryChristmas
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Yajiv
December 25, 2020
@Rahini:
I have the same problem too! I try to manage it by telling myself that I will never get through everything and that’s okay. I have started to view “to be watched” & “to be read” more as lists of gentle suggestions rather than lists of demands/tasks waiting to be completed. And framing that way has helped for me. Otherwise, it is too nerve-wracking! Life is stressful as it is, I don’t want my hobbies to become unenjoyable too.
Full disclosure: I am not always successful in practising what I just preached 🙂
Merry Christmas to you as well!
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Madan
December 25, 2020
Nice questions. Madhusudhan J’s made a great point. For sure Scam 1992 would have done even better had it not been on the Sony Liv platform. It’s far and away the best Hindi web series I have seen and just generally one of the better TV/cinema products in Hindi that I have seen in a long time. My top three are Netflix/Amazon/Disney-Hotstar albeit I have been watching less and less of the last one lately.
Rahini/Yajiv: I just don’t make To Read/To Watch lists. I will note down mentally in my head that I want to and then I will get around to it when I feel like. Like Yajiv said too, I don’t want to feel pressured into ‘completing’ it. Just from family, I have a long list of recommendations, some of which you guys are going to ask how come I haven’t watched yet – Line of Duty/People v/s OJ/Fargo (both movie which I can’t find on any streaming platform and series)/Emily in Paris/369/Joseph/Patal Lok etc. I can’t keep up. I have a terrible habit that if I like a series, I will binge watch and keep aside other stuff. So I put off watching for later, later, later.
Apart from the above, I had once started watching Succession and was enjoying it, then got busy with other things and lost track. I finished one season of Peaky Blinders and stopped because it was kinda too much Gangs of New York type for me and I had had my fill of grim in the lockdown. I started Veep the other day and at least the pilot didn’t feel as uproarious as I had expected it to be so I put it off. Same deal with Office (US). I badly want to find the UK version; I love Ricky Gervais much, much more in that role just off the few clips I have found online.
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Kay
December 29, 2020
Rahini – I think the OCD in me helps in such cases. I always go by the chronological order in which I bought the book/added a movie or series to my watchlist. It’s another thing that I also have this habit of completing whatever I started no matter how terrible it is, and I end up watching Indian Matchmaking, Oru Visheshapetta Biriyani Kissa and the likes.
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