Too much on TV? How Christians should navigate peak content

Netflix, Amazon and other streaming giants have granted us access to entire libraries full of dramas and documentaries, but can any of us really keep up? 

Pitch for a movie; I’m calling it Time Potatoes. Here’s the high concept: two TV-loving couch potatoes from differing eras switch places and try to make sense of each other’s realities. 

There’s couch potato one – let’s call him Brian – stuck to his sofa in 1989, where he eagerly awaits the latest episode of Quantum Leap to hit BBC2, and feels excited about watching a late-night rerun of The Golden Girls. Then there’s couch potato two – a modern-day TV streamer named Zach, who spends most of his waking hours keeping up with the latest, most entertaining content on every imaginable platform. He’s got a stacked watchlist across five different streaming services: a non-stop diet of shows and movies from around the world.