[opendtv] 'Lost' Weekend: A Season in One Sitting
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:51:43 -0400
'Lost' Weekend: A Season in One Sitting
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
October 27, 2005
ROBERT MICHELIN'S landlord was worried. She lived downstairs from him
and had not heard a noise, not so much as a footstep, in his
apartment for two days. Mr. Michelin himself was weary, and his
girlfriend was too.
"You should have seen the two of us in our P.J.'s," Mr. Michelin, 23,
a student of ethnomusicology who was then living in London, wrote in
an e-mail message, "exhausted from lack of sleep, hungry at times,
stressed at other times, elated and shocked most of the time."
"But," he added, they were "determined to complete the season." The
entire second season of the television show "24," that is. Mr.
Michelin, who now lives in Freeport, N.Y., was holed up in front of
the television in a marathon viewing of 24 episodes of that hit
series on DVD. "We did not see the light of day until we were done,"
he wrote.
Thousands of television series, from the era of "I Love Lucy" to that
of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," are newly available on DVD'. They have
already made an impact on people's precious leisure time and given
new meaning to the concept of the lost weekend. Viewers cram a
13-episode television series into one gluteus-numbing session in
front of the set, forgoing sit-down dinners, party invitations and
all manner of social obligations as they revisit a favorite series
like "Lost" or "Six Feet Under," or catch up on what all the fuss was
about.
Almost since the advent of television, viewers have parked themselves
on La-Z-Boys to binge on football or old movies. And in recent years,
some network and cable stations have shown old series like "The Brady
Bunch" back to back. But only recently have viewers had the
technology - which besides DVD's includes on-demand satellite and
cable channels and digital video recorders like TiVO - to screen for
themselves the entire second season, say, of "The X Files," which is
packaged on seven discs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/fashion/thursdaystyles/27dvd.html?ex=1288065600&en=808bc3d027515547&ei=5090
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