Angus Wolfe

The rights and wrongs of box-set viewing

Dipping in should be outlawed, writes Angus Wolfe Murray

Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24 Photo: Fox/Getty 
issue 31 May 2014

Admit it. Say it!

‘My name is Blah and I am a boxaholic.’

Life on hold, marriage in bits, job swinging from a rusty nail, the box-set fanatic grabs every available minute to feed an addiction. I mean, you can’t leave, can’t breathe until you find out whether Jesse and Walter make it up before someone else gets killed in Breaking Bad, or how on earth Jack can keep his daughter safe in 24.

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