I finally decided to watch the first season of 'The Bear' after hearing about it for a year, and what I thought would be a quick weekend watch turned into a two-day, can't-stop, full-series binge.

Has anyone else had a show completely derail their plans like that?

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Honestly, it's not even the good shows that do this to me. It's the mid ones with a weird hook. Last week I put on some random crime drama just for background noise while I cleaned. Tbh the plot was full of holes but the main character had this strange tic, like he'd always fix his tie before lying. Ended up on the couch for six hours straight trying to spot the next lie, my whole Sunday gone.

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morgan.mary1mo ago

That tie thing is actually a real interrogation technique called a "tell." Cops look for those tiny repeated movements that signal stress. So your bad show accidentally taught you something useful, lol.

jessec3918d ago

Oh wow, that actually makes a lot of sense. I remember reading a while back about how poker players use the same kind of thing to spot bluffs. They call them "tells" too. It's basically the same idea. A guy wrote a book about reading body language in courtrooms, and he said even trained liars slip up with tiny habits. So your crime show character might have been more realistic than you thought, even if the rest of the plot was silly. It's funny how real life techniques end up in entertainment like that.