# Time Wasters

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 21, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037 "2025-11-21T20:49:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037/4 "2025-11-21T21:42:31Z")

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Curse of Oak Island. Regardless of whether anyone believes that any treasure is there, the editing/writing of the show spends the majority of its time in recaps, flashbacks, and asides, and very little time advancing the progress of the ‘plot’.

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