As everyone knows, the principal joy of the unshared hotel room is the opportunity to watch serial episodes of "Cops" guilt-free: no domestic partner to remind you of its negative nutritional value.
"I watched serials on television, and looked at myself in the mirror, and I understood I had to do something," she said.
While irony tells us it's okay to enjoy watching a serial killer onscreen because we know it's not really a serial killing we are watching, catharsis works to satisfy, and thereby dispel, whatever primal desires that lead to criminal behavior reside within us without our knowledge.
A few months later, she and I were watching a serial based on the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, in which Queen Draupadi vowed to leave her hair disheveled until she could tie it up with hands dripping with her enemy's blood, a pronouncement that led to a great war, much as Helen's marriage to Paris had caused the Trojan War.
[Watching a serial] isn't their life in any technical way, and it certainly isn't their public life.
When she's not writing, she enjoys celebrating small joys with her friends and binge watching juicy serial dramas with her husband.
His young characters were ready to cope with extraterrestrial confrontation because they'd spent hours watching TV serials and playing Space Invaders.
If you're an aficionado, or just have a lot of time on your hands, you may actually be watching better serials, like Felicia Day's role-playing-game satire, "The Guild," which recently completed its fourth season, or Lisa Kudrow's latest deconstruction of 21st-century self-absorption, "Web Therapy," which just resumed its third.
For taking the long view, India is not a bad vantage point from which to watch the serial eruptions in the Arab world.
Angora says: Have you watched a serial killer on the news and wondered 'how did his wife not know'?
