Big Brother

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to remember what it feels like to be bored. With phones at our fingers, spare moments these days are spent scrolling and swiping. Those long, boring moments of our 80s and 90s childhoods — time we spent hanging upside down on couches, or watching raindrops race down windows — seem like quaint, distant memories.

Watching this year’s Big Brother is taking me back to that bygone time.

When I spoke to BB host Mel Tracina recently, she insisted the show would be “all about watching people being bored in a house” and she’s right — it is. But here’s the thing: turns out it’s just what my frazzled brain needs right now.

Today I watched this year’s housemates play a game of I Spy via the show’s live stream. It was “so

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