Entertainment, Life & Everything In Between
Turns out, hitting play on The Office for the fourth time isn't laziness — it's actually your brain doing something pretty smart. We dug into the growing comfort rewatch trend to figure out why so many of us keep returning to the same shows, and what it says about the world we're living in right now.
We've all done the thing where someone asks what we've been watching and we quietly skip over the three seasons of reality dating shows we just inhaled. It's time to stop doing that. Your guilty pleasures aren't guilty — they're just pleasures.
The old playbook for breaking into entertainment is basically extinct. In the age of streaming and social platforms, the path to a creative career looks nothing like it did even ten years ago — and honestly, that might be the best thing to ever happen to aspiring artists.