Doing Television Wrong

I can read and play games for hours, but I dislike television, even on my new huge big screen. What I do with sitcoms and anime is to watch about five minutes per day of a handful of shows through an app on my game machine before I start playing. I can sit through five minutes of anything, and in this way I can more or less keep current and not be that hipster who never watches tv.

Hannibal, though. Each episode is an hour long, meaning that it takes me two weeks to watch one of them, and it's even more time consuming in that for every five minutes I spend watching it I spend at least ten minutes sitting there afterwards getting angry about how stupid it is.

I understand the fandom for Sherlock, because Sherlock is witty, beautifully produced, and a lot of fun; the central OTP has fantastic chemistry, and the supporting cast is brilliant. A sizable portion of the Sherlock writers and artists moved to the Hannibal fandom over the past year, and I don't get it. Are we watching the same show? Are they seeing something I'm not?

This is why I'm deathly afraid of watching Doctor Who. Hannibal will finish its run and the fandom will move on, but I don't want to risk becoming one of the people who hates the source text for an always-fandom. I already have enough trouble with my feelings about Star Trek.