# Not allowed to ever watch any new shows/movies beyond TODAY'S DATE: Would you be fine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011 "2025-06-23T07:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/41 "2025-06-30T05:39:50Z")
Yeah, of i can watch YouTube, then it’s easy. But going with the spirit of the thing, i would find it burdensome. I basically only watch tv and movies socially. And sometimes on airplanes, but mostly socially. I didn’t sit down and think, “I’d like to watch as movie, what will it be?” I say, “hey, let’s get the family together on Christmas and watch a movie”, or, “want to watch Netflix with me this evening?” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/42 "2025-06-30T12:40:39Z")
Are you missing a “not” in there? As so often with the two of us, I could have written > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I basically only watch tv and movies socially. And sometimes on airplanes, but mostly socially. I didn’t sit down and think, “I’d like to watch as movie, what will it be?” I say, “hey, let’s get the family together on Christmas and watch a movie”, or, “want to watch Netflix with me this evening?” Which means to me that the loss of that would be _not_ burdensome. In fact it’d be almost unnoticed. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/43 "2025-06-30T13:55:35Z")
It would be burdensome, because i use TV and movies as a way to socialize. My family has watched a movie together on Christmas it Christmas eve every year since 1 was about 10. I get together with a friend every week to watch TV together. (Although lately we’ve mostly been watching YouTube cooking shows. Lots of good YouTube content.) I suppose i could find other stuff to do. But the fact that there’s plenty of old shows to watch is almost irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/44 "2025-06-30T14:13:44Z")
Gotcha. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/45 "2025-06-30T15:32:10Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > It would be burdensome, because i use TV and movies as a way to socialize. As I said, there is sure to be a television show or movie in the future that _everyone_ has seen and is talking about. Think of Star Wars in 1977 or Lost or Game of Thrones as the shows were airing. You’re going to be completely out of the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/46 "2025-06-30T18:12:37Z")
I’m probably going to be anyway, and have been out of those conversations for most of my life. The people I spend time with generally have additional topics of conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/47 "2025-06-30T18:20:18Z")
I think _most_ people have more than one thing to talk about. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/48 "2025-06-30T19:35:57Z")
True. ---
**Author:** ![mjmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/49 "2025-06-30T19:57:26Z")
I would be fine with about 6-7 shows and about 10 favorite movies. I had the TV to myself for the first time in forever the last few days. With 5 streaming services, I still ended up re-watching episodes of HBO’s Rome for the ~50th time. I think the last two seasons Game of Thrones ruined new TV shows for me. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/50 "2025-07-08T02:53:47Z")
“Let’s say a decree came down saying that you (you, personally as a test or law or punishment or rule or… SOME kind of magical reason) are not allowed to EVER watch any movie or tv show beyond THIS POINT, today’s date of June 23rd, 2025” Tonight on ABC’s Movie of the Week: Cliff Robertson stars in Edward Everett Hale’s _A Man Without a Popular Culture._ Condemned to live aboard Navy vessels, never to have access to Streaming Services, YouTube, or even DailyMotion with all the f\*\*\*ing ad breaks; all for having uttered in a moment of intemperance: _Damn the brainrot and churn! I wish I may never hear of the Netflix login tudum again!_ Doomed with only a shelf of the Harvard Classics for company, and their comic book adaptations [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/The_Man_Without_a_Country.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/The_Man_Without_a_Country.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011/51 "2025-07-08T17:52:37Z")
Wow. I never saw that Classics Illustrated, though I read a lot of them when I was in elementary school. Cool! (Have read the story, though.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-allowed-to-ever-watch-any-new-shows-movies-beyond-todays-date-would-you-be-fine/1020011.md?page=2)