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by gwilkes 2601 days ago
In case this is a serious question and not a joke (unclear which it is) then he may be saying that older movies and shows had these longer intros that seemed normal at the time, but if you watch them again now they seem long and boring now. So that is one to show how your attention span has become shorter
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That’s exactly what I was getting at... The best is watching it with your kids...they can’t take it lol.
Meanwhile, in Norway, slow tv [1] is quite popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television

You'd also watch a show one episode a week unless it was on reruns. It used to be almost impossible to watch TV for 4+ hours because at certain times of the day, absolutely nothing worth watching was even on.
Or movie trailers, like the French Connection