💬 I give every show 3 episodes before I decide

My rule is 3 episodes. Nothing less, nothing more. Then I decide if the show gets a chance. It started with Breaking Bad. Everyone I knew had seen it, and I was the only one who hadn't. I watched episode 1 in 2019 and switched it off after 20 minutes. A man in his underwear in the desert. I told my friends it was boring. They looked at me like I'd insulted their grandmother. One of them, Kamal, locked the door and made me watch 2 more. He sat next to me. By the end of episode 3 I was hooked. I finished the whole thing in 9 days. I told my manager I had a stomach bug. I did, kind of, from the snacks. That's where the rule comes from. Episode 1 lies, episode 3 usually tells the truth. The rule isn't perfect. I gave a crime show from last year 3 episodes and hated all of them. Episode 3 was the worst. Everybody whispered, and somebody walked slowly towards a door for 6 minutes. I dropped it. My cousin said, but it gets good in episode 7. I said, that's too late. He's probably right, and I'm still not going back to check, because I have 3 other shows waiting. I keep a list on my phone of the shows I've started. Right now there are 11. 7 of them are stuck at episode 2 because I fell asleep during the intro. I watch at night after dinner with a plate of fruit, on the sofa in the hall. My mother comes in around the second episode and asks who's the guy with the gun.

The 3 episode rule worked for me with a medical drama last year, but it fails for slow starters. A friend made me watch episode 4 of Mirzapur before I would quit, and that was the one where it changed. So I now say 4. Kamal sounds like a good friend to have, locking the door and all. I would have quit at episode 2 without someone like him.

I read about a show first before I start. Not spoilers, just enough to know if it's my type.