Hindsight: Your New Favorite TV Show

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You have gross details of your own life that make knowing the gross details of anyone else’s life unnecessary. But their lack of necessity doesn’t make them uninteresting. That’s why people watch reality television, read tabloids, and obsess on Instagram.

We need the filth of others’ lives to make our lives feel a bit better. Or We need the perfection of their lives to reinforce the shame we feel…