It’s OK to waste your time watching TV shows

Your time is precious, and you are responsible for spending it wisely. I’m convinced that leisure activities are essential for well-being and even a stupid TV show could give you just what you need to relax. Behold my ridiculously over-analytical approach to help you decide what to watch and how to control your urges for binge-watching.

Ondrej Svoboda
5 min readNov 1, 2022
Couple sitting on a couch, watching a TV show. AI-generated image by the author via DALL-E

I’m a big fan of The Lord of The Rings. So big that together with my friends, I made a parody of The Fellowship of The Ring about 20 years ago. Ouch, the time flies…

We dubbed the whole movie with our own words and used different songs as the soundtrack. Only the visual part remained. To our surprise, it was a great hit, and many people from our country use catchphrases from this parody in their daily communication to this day.

You can imagine how excited I was when I learned there would be a TV series from the world of Middle-Earth, The Rings of Power. When the first episode was live, the reviews were mixed. Some people were extremely excited, while others hated every part of it.

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Ondrej Svoboda

Smart home enthusiast, Team leader in IT, Technophile, Proud parent, Improv practitioner, Latent filmmaker and magician, Multipotentialite