PSA: My Netflix 'continue watching' list hit 42 shows last night

I opened the app to finally finish a series and just stared at the number. Forty-two. That's a full work week of shows just sitting there, half-watched. I got to that point by starting something new every time I got bored, which is about every two episodes. The worst part is I can't even remember what half of them are about. There's a cooking competition show I stopped after the third challenge, a cartoon I watched one episode of with my niece, and a crime drama where I forgot who the killer was. It felt like a weird personal failure, but also kind of funny. My own laziness created a TV graveyard. Has anyone else's 'continue watching' list gotten totally out of hand like this?

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morgan.logan6mo ago

Cleaned mine out by removing anything I hadn't touched in over a month. Felt harsh, but it cut the list in half and I haven't missed a single one. Sometimes you just need a fresh start.

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faith2746mo ago

My Hulu list is basically a museum of bad decisions. I have a half watched documentary about mushrooms from 2021, three episodes of a show where people restore old trucks, and a teen drama I started during a sick day. The preview pictures don't even look familiar anymore. I tell myself I'll go back when I'm in the mood, but that mood has never come for the truck show. How do you even start cleaning that up?

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the_sandra6mo ago

Honestly your Hulu list sounds like a cry for help, but I respect the commitment to the mushroom documentary. Morgan.logan's method is brutal but probably right, you have to accept that the truck restoration show had its moment and let it go.

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