A mechanism or tactic · 1990 · Fiction
The comfort rewatch
The show you have already seen, watched again, not for the plot. Familiarity as a nervous system intervention.
The most functional parasocial behaviour in ordinary life and the one nobody pathologises, because it demonstrably works. Nothing else in a person's week guarantees the outcome. It is also the cleanest evidence that people attach to the accumulation rather than the content.
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