Every few years the so-called "slow movement" cycles back into vogue on some front. Maybe you've encountered a version of it – remember when "slow food" was all the rage? To explain it in layman's terms, this was and is a culinary practice defined by preparing dishes in a traditional manner using locally sourced ingredients, emphasizing food quality and the prevention of waste.
A noble practice that, like anything else of its kind, can be taken to bourgeois extremes. Its television equivalent is case in point: Before people came up with a term for shows like "Better Call Saul" there was a short-lived effort to attach the "Slow TV" label to any show that emphasized marinating the audience in character development and mood. Multiple episodes might pass before "anything happens" – which is to say the writers might wait for several installments to turn up the flames, whether that heat takes the form of scandal, betrayal, swift reversals of fortune or the reliable trigger of violence.
