It’s an impressive list of high quality television: The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Big Love, Deadwood, Eastbound & Down, Family Tree, Enlightened, Treme, early seasons of Boardwalk Empire and True Blood, plus mini-series like Band of Brothers, John Adams.
These are all of the HBO shows that will be made available next month to Amazon Prime customers.
To some, it will feel like a necessary perk, what with Amazon Prime membership costing more than it used to. To others, it’s a farewell to productivity, because let’s face it, this is a lot of television to watch. Just how long will it take you to get through all of this content?
Assuming you take no potty breaks, don’t sleep, and eat in front of your laptop or television, it will take this long:
Thanks to the website tiii.me, which allows you to calculate how much of your life you’ve spent watching tv based on what shows you’ve seen, it will take a grand total of 21 days, 23 hours, and 30 minutes to blaze your way through all of the HBO content.
If you’re an Amazon Prime member, maybe don’t plan on doing much for the month of May.
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