Bonus: and that likely explains why older shows tend to have self-contained episodes while newer shows tend to be serial.

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    On the flip side they’ll not get to experience knowing that the channel you were watching was the exact same for everyone. It feels really strange and isolating to me to know that what’s on my TV right now is streaming just to me.

    I know it’s silly; we were still watching TV alone, but there was something about knowing that other people were watching the same thing at the same time that made it better.

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      Now, even when I watch cable, I’m not sure very many people are watching at the same time because a lot of people are DVRing it