6 Stages of Divorcing Your Favourite Television Show

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Being one with the Netflix generation, I have become a huge fan of binge watching. Long gone are the days when I wait a week for the next episode of Buffy. These days, I can watch as many episodes as I want from the comfort of my duvet. In fact, this is so much my habit that I often put shows aside so I can focus on one, or start watching when I have time to binge watch. This how I’ve only ever seen 2 episodes of Game of Thrones. The past month or so, my Netflix poison of choice as been Gossip Girl. I don’t know how it happened, I caught a couple of episodes a while ago and somehow I got bit by the Gossip Girl bug and drawn into ‘the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite’. I could write a whole article on how much I love the writing, how much I’ve seriously fallen in love with New York and how I’ve even fallen in love with the fashion, yes me, the queen of tee shirts and any old pair of jeans.

Today, I finally watched the last episode and it has hit m hard. The overwhelming sense of emptiness that comes from several weeks of back-to-back episodes finishing. So here are my six stages of divorcing your favourite tv shows. As always, please let me know your biggest TV heartbreaks on Facebook or in the comments below.

You know you love me, xo xo.

1. Crying. And some more crying. And even a bit more crying after that.

I always cry when I finish TV shows and books or anything where I’ve found myself really invested in the plot and characters. Maybe I’m just a bit over emotional but it always feels like a break up. You put all this energy in and good writing pulls you through so many emotions. Then suddenly you have to accept that although it’s been good, it’s over.

 

2. Research EVERYTHING about it.

If I learn everything about the show, it will live on in my mind always, right?

This is the hours of your life you spend on IMDb and watching endless interviews on YouTube. Oh, and just in case you didn’t look sad enough at this point, you  will spend every future viewing reeling off to your friends all the facts you know about it.

Seriously people, Ed Westwick is ENGLISH. He’s from Stevenage.

 

3. Realise you don’t know what to do with your life.

Ah yes, the emptiness. The chilling emptiness that fills your very being with dread and despair.

For months when you’ve had nothing to do, that show has been there for you. It’s seen you through more highs and lows than your teddy bear ever did. It has been your constant companion. But now what? What else are you going to do when there’s nothing else to do? What are you going to use to help your procrastinate?

You have no choice but to lie there on the sofa motionless and realise life is empty, meaningless and cold.

 

4. The rebound.

It’s OK. We’ve all done it. Started watching the crappiest TV show we could find because we can’t bear to give our heart to something new just yet. Even that or we visit an old fling. It’s OK to watch back-to-back episodes of Scrubs to take your mind off things, I promise.It’s even OK to watch daytime TV if you have to. David Dickinson’s tan should take your mind off your heart break in no time at all.

Yes, it’s the television equivalent of pulling the bird with the shortest skirt and strongest Essex accent in the nightclub toilets and following it off with the greasiest kebab you can find, but it’s OK. It will get better from here.

 

5. Curiosity

Every time you log into Facebook someone is talking that TV show, in fact it’s been on your ‘To Watch’ list for as long as Big Brother has attracted the country’s most desperate wannabes. You start to wonder, what is it about it that’s so good? And what DOES that meme mean? You’re beginning to feel out of the in jokes and in the end curiosity gets the better of you and you track it down on Netflix.

Hey, this is actually kind of good.

 

6. Obsession (Again)

It happens again, you’re hooked on a new show. Your weekends are spent hiding under your duvet eating left over pizza and watching this show. You know every word of the theme song by heart and get just a little bit excited when you hear those opening chords. You know that when you have a bad day, it’s waiting to console you and when you have a good day you know just how to celebrate.

You have the faintest feeling that you’ve been here before, but right now it doesn’t matter because you’re in love all over again.

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