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Bingewatching TV shows
Not a big lover of TV shows, I have bingewatched only three times in my whole life. I think I am missing on something 😃 When I was watching “Narcos,” I remember being so overwhelmed with those people’s lives that I couldn’t think about anything else, even though the topic of drug traffic is very irrelevant to me. It was a drug indeed. As for “Breaking Bad,” the main character was too charming: an unrecognized genius who gives it hot. The values discussed in “Call the Midwife” resonated with me a lot. So, I immersed myself into the atmosphere of the ’50s and many people’s fates, until I felt they were real. I could watch it for 6 hours in a go, and when I was back to my life, I was a kinder and more caring person. I started watching them in the original language without subtitles, but as I didn’t want to miss out on something important, I switched to my own language. I have never considered bingewatching TV series as a way of studying English. Instead, when I watched for the sake of English, the shows were not so absorbing. I chose something I could put on hold, in order to write out new words and watched one series at a time.
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It’s the third time this week someone has mentioned ‘Call the Midwife!’… I may have to check it out. I know what you mean about becoming absorbed in a show – this happened to me with The Handmaid’s Tale and Homeland!
Wonderful, rich vocab @Elena (I especially appreciate the words highlighted in green.)
Watch out when using ‘very’ > Adjectives like irrelevant are what we call ‘Absolute Adjectives’. This means that is generally not capable of being intensified or compared. Therefore we don’t use ‘very’ with these kinds of adjective.
You could say ‘largely irrelvant’
You might find this interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/eiam/unit-1/session-47
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Thank you. I wanted to say “an unrecognized genius who beats the pants off everyone” or “teaches them a lesson.”
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Got you!
> … an unrecognised genius who knows his stuff!
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Ahahaha! Cool.
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