When I started (at the New Yorker), I had this idea to alternate, network show, cable show, big show, little gem. That’s out the window. I would like to watch more, it’s enriching. But you know what also enriches? Living your life. I used to have a masochistic thing where if I pan a show I had to watch the whole season. ‘It might change!’ Now I don’t do that. I drop shows. I get irritated if a show is bad when there is so much to watch, but I feel self-conscious. I don’t want to hold it against creators of this stuff that I have a job where I get impatient.
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