#SLEEP NO MORE ONE ON ONES MOVIE#
The movie opens on a gaggle of grad students who are trying to cure sleep. That’s not to say it’s terrible, but it just might put you to sleep. I should but, well, there are so many good horror films to watch! Unfortunately, SLEEP NO MORE is not one of them. In any case - if the new study is to be believed - the influence of media may be more complicated than some of its detractors insist it is.Starring Keli Price, Brea Grant and Stephen Ellis The mind, after all, must contemplate something as it shuffles off to Slumberland. Giving it a distracting morsel of fiction to chew on might not be the worst idea. I know when I work my brain hard, it tires me out, so it isn’t all too crazy to think that the intense plot line results in a good night’s sleep."Īnd if many of the twists involve killing and havoc? It may be more soothing to ponder fictional violence than to brood over insurrection in Washington, or the latest grim news about climate change. "But if you think about it, it might not be that surprising. "I was surprised that such a high-octane show was on the list," Celatti said. The plot, over four seasons, has an infernal logic that is part of the show's appeal.īut that may be another reason for "Ozark's" sleep-inducing qualities. It's a labyrinth viewers can lose themselves in - and perhaps nod off to. And always, for every crisis he solves, two new crises develop from that solution.
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He just starts to think furiously about how to get out of the hole.Īlways, he does. Or if not, he is at least grimly focused. As each new crisis develops, he doesn't panic, doesn't lose it. Some of it might have to do with Bateman's leading character, Marty Byrde. How can situations that are so tension-making for all the characters be so relaxing to viewers? Crisis control And when there's not violence, there's the threat of violence. This show, which recently wrapped, was a worthy successor to "Breaking Bad." Here we have yet another crime drama with yet another unlikely master criminal - a mousy accountant (Jason Bateman), shanghaied into moving to the Ozarks with his family and laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel. Participants also answered a questionnaire afterwards. The study involved 50 volunteers who watched a range of 20 Netflix shows at bedtime - a different one every night - and were then hooked up to an EEG (electroencephalogram) machine to record their sleep quality. Matters of Fact: Is Elon Musk's idea of 'free speech' on Twitter good? What experts say "If you were to think of best shows for sleep, you’d think of more relaxing shows like those that you might see on National Geographic, or easy-to-watch shows like 'Friends' and 'The Office'," said 's editor, Alyssa Celatti.
Moreover, those shows aren't necessarily the ones you'd expect.
#SLEEP NO MORE ONE ON ONES TV#
survey has emerged as an outlier.Īccording to a study by the platform , certain TV shows actually do help you get a good night's sleep.
The last thing advertisers want is to put you to sleep.Īmid all the nervous editorializing about how TV and social media are making us more fearful, about a mental state dubbed "mean world syndrome" brought on by TV bingeing, a small U.S. The first commandment of media - any media - is to keep your attention. Then there is "entertainment" media - excitements of every kind, many of them involving violence. There is the endless parade of terrors we doom-scroll on our personal devices. Murder, mayhem, political madness, war in Ukraine and mass-shooters at home.
"Unplug!" is the first word of advice many of us would give to an anxious person. Imagine all the calming, soothing things in the world - and you have imagined everything Media is not. Butterflies, babbling brooks, a cup of warm milk at bedtime.
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