Greetings!
I'm someone who finds watching movies a time-consuming leisure activity, especially if the movie seems endless. It's not like I'm the busiest person on earth, but I do get busy a lot. Oftentimes, I fight the urge to watch movies because I know that once I start and the movie becomes interesting, it will pull me away from my daily activities and even cut into my sleeping time. That's how my body reacts to interesting movies.
Talking about the longest time I spent watching a movie: that would be up to three months. Hold on, I don’t mean I spent all the hours in those three months just watching the movie, but when you look at it closely, it almost feels like that. The movie I watched was The Walking Dead series, which has 11 seasons (not counting the spin-offs), and wow, the series enchanted and captured my heart. It made my day feel useless because there's always the urge for "one more episode."
No doubt, 11 seasons is something a movie freak could finish within a week, but come on, that person mustn't have anything else useful to do to achieve such a feat. Like I said earlier, my time is always crying for attention, so I made sure I was able to resist the magnetic pull of "just one more episode," though I did give in to that urge multiple times.
There were days I spent the entire night watching this series because the current episode always ended with a must watch suspense, and I just couldn’t stop without seeing what happens next. That's to show you how captivating the series is. On those nights, I found myself sleeping around 4 a.m. and waking up at 7 a.m. to the sound of customers banging on my door. The worst part is, I can’t sleep during the day, so I would end up with tired eyes and a drained body.
I'm not exaggerating how good the series is, but every part of it, right from the beginning, was too engaging to pull away from. The fact that I didn’t read any reviews or search for spoilers on social media meant I had no idea what would happen next, especially who would be the next to die. That uncertainty kept my heart and eyes glued to the screen, constantly hoping my favorite characters wouldn’t die – though most of them did.
However, the part that really made me lose all sense of responsibility was when Negan was introduced. Damn, that changed everything. The series took a whole new turn at that point, and I couldn’t tear myself away.
In a way, I’m thankful I didn’t follow the series as it was being released because I would’ve been furious with the long gaps. Imagine, the first season came out in 2010, and the final season wrapped up in 2022 – a whole 12 years! Also, binge-watching the series probably hit me harder than I expected because, on some days, I couldn’t even maintain my usual two-article writing streak on this platform. I would be drafting, and the next thing I knew, the urge to watch the next episode would creep in, and that would be the end of my productivity.
Well, I do love zombie movies, and that’s why I was so glued to The Walking Dead.
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