On Repeat: Why People Watch Movies and Shows Over and Over

by Radhika Pawar creative content writer

Watching a new movie or starting a new series brings with it a lot of entertainment and excitement. We are fully submerged in a totally different world with a new set of characters, stories, and ideas. This is the perfect time to see novel locations, learn unfamiliar perspectives, and experience the lives of others on a whole new level.

 

Despite this, a good number of us still enjoy watching the same families movies and TV shows over and over again. Why do we spend so much of our precious time with stories we already know. This quick guide covering on repeat why people watch movies and shows over and over will help answer some of your questions.

 

The Need to Fulfil our Emotional Needs

While rewatching familiar movies and TV shows, we tend to receive the stories and emotions we anticipate. We know have an insight into how the episodes end and more importantly, how we’ll feel when the end.

 

This is among the main reasons we’re more likely to settle on comedies for repeated viewing instead of dramas or tragedies. In short, a good number of us watch our favorite shows when expecting the story and the emotional payoff we already know is coming.

 

The Mere Exposure Effect

There’s no denying that people fall in love with things way more merely because they’ve been exposed to it.  This is what we commonly refer to as the mere exposure effect. We repeatedly give an ear to songs we like and enjoy them even more with each repeat. Art and culture depict the same effects.

 

Take Frech Impression, as an example, which was strongly disapproved at first, then beloved. With repeated viewings of the same movie or TV show, we tend to fall in love with it more and feel more attached to each repetition. With shows, we enjoy, repetition is the mother of affection.

 

Keep in mind movie and TV shows place us into another world, not just precisely in the enacted story but outside, in the story of our own lives. We tend to get involved in the movie show while remembering our lives associated with that movie or TV show.

 

While rewatching old movies and TV shows, we may connect with a person from our past, recalling the conversations we had afterward, the jokes we shared, and the references we made. 

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