I watched soaps (The Young and the Senseless) for a sociology course I took lotsa years back. Five months of it. When the course finished I stopped watching.

Time passed. About 20 years. I happened in to a room where TYatS was on. In 10 minutes I knew what was happening as though two decades had not passed.

It's reassuring to see nothing has changed. Soaps are better than tranqs. Put one on today (which is again two decades later) and I'd be asleep at minute eleven having caught up on the latest.