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Monsters walk among us — and they're watching Netflix at 1.5x speed


Netflix lets you watch shows at superspeed. Our modern appetite for content might mean we've stretched our brains to watch faster. But is that good?

It's a show that has lots of long, dramatic pauses and little visual action — just two people sitting on a couch talking. Others just want to be able to consume more in their TV-watching time — a sentiment Nicholas Quah wrote about for Vulture in defense of his own speed-watching habit. Young people consume content on their phones in strange and weird ways (RIP, Quibi, you were ahead of your time).

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