9:28pm Monday 1st March 2010
By Claire Maxwell
You know you’re middle class when you refuse to watch television when it is originally broadcast (unless of course if it involves Kirstie and Phil, Sarah Beeny, Monty Don, or that guy off of Grand Designs. I forget his name).
But instead pay out for a boxset, watch the entire thing in the space of a month, and then enthusiastically rave about it to friends at dinner parties. “And are you into 24? Great isn‘t it? Excellent. Such excitement… Charlotte, you don’t know it? Honestly, you’d love it. You really must get the boxset”.
The good thing about a boxset is that you are not forced to wait an entire 7 days for the next episode. But can watch at your own leisure. Perhaps a night in with a glass of wine and a platter of cheese. Or even, for the more hardcore among us, a boxset marathon. Take 24, for example, there are 24 episodes in a boxset (fancy that?) and ‘the following events take place in real time’. So in theory you could watch the action unfold at the same time of day as Jack Bauer and co. are experiencing it (not in real life, but that is not something to dwell on). Who could think of a more thrilling experience? Not me.
There are millions upon trillions of options when it comes to boxsets. You could go for the shoes and the men with a bit of Sex and the City. You could opt for some philandering and poor acting in Desperate Housewives (never seen it, apologies if I have misrepresented it, but I doubt I have). Or perhaps you’d prefer questions such as; ‘How is it that Hurley has not lost any weight after spending months on a desert island with limited food and copious treks in the jungle?’, ‘Will Jack and Kate EVER just flippin’ get it on?’, and ‘WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE NUMBERS?!’. Then Lost is the boxset for you. And who wouldn’t want the entire 10 seasons of Friends, I realise we have all watched every episode at least 15 times thanks to the relentless repeats on E4, but its Friends, you can never watch enough Friends *stares persuasively at dad*.
Whatever it is you fancy, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. And in no time at all you’ll be organising the dinner parties, becoming a ‘fan’ of boxset-of-choice on facebook, and googling the hunky lead man. Or sexy lead lady. I admit, I’ve done both.
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