Television Recaps

As I am going through all of my old posts, giving them a slight edit, and then making them public, we are coming to the brief period in which I was recapping a few television shows

A recap is like it sounds – a brief synopsis of what happened within an episode of a series with bits of trivia thrown in and some of my thoughts.

I enjoyed doing it, but it was very time-consuming and I always felt the pressure of getting something up the moment it aired, and so I gave it up.

Too soon as it turns out. When I was writing those recaps, back in 2006, that whole industry was in its infancy. Back in the print magazine and newspaper days, they might write a review of an entire season of a show, or more than likely they’d give a sneak peak of an upcoming season or a new show. But there wasn’t enough space to do regular episode recaps.

Print is free on the Internet and eventually, sites figured out that people enjoyed watching an episode and then going online to read about what they just watched. Lost may have been the show that made that idea really popular. That show was so full of Easter Eggs and little details that might be important that fans were endlessly discussing each episode.

Any number of critics and writers got their careers by doing recaps. I sometimes wonder if I had stuck with where I might be and what I might be doing.

But I didn’t and here we are. And now you get to read my little attempt at doing recaps. I’m interested in seeing how they hold up. Certainly, they are little time capsules of TV from many years ago.