Undercutting Disbelief (AKA Breaking the Suspension of Disbelief)November 15, 2025I watch a lot of TV, and I can suspend my disbelief quite easily. I’ll watch MgGyver (the new one) build an energy-beam weapon out of a junked microwave oven and a car battery. But sometimes a TV show is written in a way that totally breaks the illusion it intends to create. I’ve been watching High Potential, a show not about pot smokers but about a woman with a genius-level IQ who is an information vacuum. She seems to know about everything and claims to watch a lot of documentaries. She’s also a bit pedantic. When she used the… (Read more on Dave's blog)
