Last weekend, I did a thing I sometimes do that is embarrassing to admit if you are not the kind of person who also does this: I went to see fourmoviesin one day. Beau is Afraid in the late morning, Suzume in the afternoon,Evil Dead Risein the evening, andHow To Blow Up A Pipelineto finish the night with a bang.
You might be thinking, “That’s way too many movies for one day!” And it was. But there’s so much currently in theaters that I still want to see (Air, The Pope’s Exorcist, Nefarious) stuff I’ve seen but would love to rewatch (John Wick: Chapter 4,Avatar: The Way of Water), and stuff that’s coming out soon (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Sisu, Polite Society) that I still don’t feel entirely satisfied. Throw in the movies that are new to streaming, like Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, which I hear is wonderful, and Ghosted, which I have a morbid curiosity about, and I won’t be wanting for things to watch anytime soon.
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That’s not including TV, either. I’m behind onThe Mandalorian,The Last of Us, and Barry, I want to start Succession at some point, and I have a few episodes left of Beef. Then there’s the season of The Boys from last year which I’ve been saving for a rainy day, and it would be fun to do an Andor rewatch at some point. That show ruled.
In video games, I’m just as busy. I’m about 40 hours deep into Afterimage with a few bosses left to go, I’m making time forDead Island 2whenever I can, and I’ll be losing myself inStar Wars: Jedi SurvivorandThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomvery soon. AndHi-Fi RushandMarvel’s Midnight Sunswould like a word about all these new games I’m starting.
We often complain about how there are just too many games coming out, and while that’s true, it was less true throughout 2021 and 2022 as developers were impacted by the pandemic. But this year has already given us plenty to play, and May is filled with plenty of big releases.
Right now it feels like there’s too much of everything, not just games. It may be because each of these entertainment industries is finally back up to the speed they were chugging along at pre-pandemic (at least until the looming writer’s strike hits movies and TV). If teams hadn’t needed to switch to work-from-home and virtual workflows in 2020, would many of these games, movies, and shows have come out earlier? Is this the bottleneck finally unclogging? As someone who doesn’t work in any of these industries, it’s hard to answer that definitively. But, as someone who wants to try to keep up, it’s gotten noticeably more difficult in the last month or so.
Sometimes, that means you just need to give up on trying to keep up at all. I love reading, and try to read a book a week, but typically when I get to the end of the year and look back, I can count the books I read that were actually released that year on one hand. I’m mostly fine with that. We all feel that way about certain areas of interest, and I view my relationship to books as evidence that I can still engage with a medium without needing to be caught up on everything it has to offer.
I tell myself that, but it won’t stop me from buying Tears of the Kingdom on day one, devoting a hundred hours to Starfield, and sinking tons of time into big, meaty RPGs like Diablo 4, Final Fantasy 16, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Sea of Stars, all while downloading everything that looks remotely interesting onGame Pass. I’ve given up on superhero movies for the most part, but that won’t stop me from seeing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on opening night. And I may not care that much about The Mandalorian anymore but that won’t stop me from feeling a little guilty until I finish the season. Is it still FOMO if you’re able to turn it into content?
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