True crime? Dystopias? Apocalypses? It sure seems like doomscrolling has a new best friend.
premiered in the summer of 2020, the show was hailed as an antidote for the lockdown blues.’s coach was an indomitable cheerleader for the pandemic age, and TV executives began chasing Ted’s tail, seeking out uplifting projects to elevate the national mood. But the funny thing is, in scary times, people don’t necessarily turn to the brightest forms of entertainment. Many of us have been finding a strange kind of solace in dark matter.
Call it doombingeing: the TV-drama counterpart to doomscrolling through the endlessly refreshed supply of bad news. The media psychology scholarPsychology of Popular Media It might seem counterintuitive to expose ourselves to stories that scare or disgust us when we’re already vibrating with anxiety, but Cohen begs to differ. “We assume that we’re going to entertainment because we enjoy it…but there are so many other reasons. We can experiment with some of those difficult emotions, [and] having the experiences in a safe environment can be really beneficial to developing ourselves.
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