Bernard O'Shea: I'm binge-watching boxsets in bed. I like to pretend I'm Don Draper

Bernard O'Shea: I cannot go through another messy break-up with my current visual affair, so I've come up with a plan on How To Break Up with a Box Set. Photograph Moya Nolan 

"What is happiness? It's a moment before you need more happiness.” - Don Draper, Mad Men. This is exactly how I feel when I finish binge-watching a program online. I cannot go through another messy break-up with my current visual affair so I’ve come up with my own plan on “How to Break up with a Box Set”.

During the pandemic I have fallen in love with Boardwalk Empire, Drive to Survive, Normal People, Peaky Blinders, Ozark, and even Paw Patrol (Season 4) along with countless other visual behemoths that have been streamed directly into my amygdala and have kept me sane and momentarily “happy” during lockdown. Only for them to leave me wanting more and asking myself, “What would Tommy Shelby do about something he loved being taken away from him so brutally?”