Esther McCarthy: If you're not watching these TV shows, you're wasting your money

Keep watching until the paintball episode and if you don’t like it by then, there’s something dead inside you. Who hurt you?

Esther McCarthy. Picture: Emily Quinn

My first months of the year are taken up with absorbing information from articles and podcasts: live feeds on how to drink less, move more, improve on relationships, recipes, and resources. 

I must be more present, more grateful, more lean, more green. “Just BE BETTER!” the experts seem to admonish me, “you dehydrated, magnesium-deficient drunkard with unclaimed tax benefits, and crumpled bedclothes and face.”