Reddit is not a place I typically like to be, and lately, I’ve landed on a couple of important reasons why. On one hand, the posts on the forum site often come dangerously close to conspiracy for my taste. And on the other hand, I am exactly the kind of gullible bozo who’s liable to find himself up to his neck in those very conspiracies. Whether a user is speculating that Crumbl cookies is in cahoots with Big Pharma or hypothesizing about Troye Sivan being an old Victorian doll that came to life to make people gay — I am, unfortunately, very interested.
Because I am of weak will and feeble mind, I had to delete the Reddit app from my phone altogether a few weeks back. It wasn’t just because being prone to falling into Reddit holes is at odds with my goal to free myself from the prison of my phone in the new year; I deleted Reddit because I knew “Severance” Season 2 was right around the corner, and I wanted to preserve the watch experience for myself as much as possible. Maybe that’s a funny thing to say as a critic who could binge the whole season at will (and trust me, I know how completely obnoxious and haughty that sounds). But because I have to watch things for my job, I know how deeply dire the television landscape has become. Really, when was the last time a show was this delicious to savor from week to week?
