TV for insomniacs: Netflix s Headspace Guide To Sleep
Nodding off in front of the telly is a time-honoured ritual which has over time evolved from waking up to the crackle of end of hours broadcast, to Netflix beadily asking, “Are you still watching?” (an irritating feature that is mercifully in the trial stages of being switched off).
Given the soporific nature of TV it was perhaps inevitable that streaming platforms would branch out into programmes intentionally designed to help the viewer sleep – and, more importantly, to get their slice of the growing meditation pie. Netflix has three series this year in collaboration with the popular Headspace app – the second, Headspace Guide to Sleep, landed this week.
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When TV Goes Right Past Meditative to Vegetative
âEarth Moodsâ may look like a screensaver, but youâll have to pay Disney+ to enjoy its calming effects.
“Earth Moods” is one of several TV series that seek to soothe rather than excite or engage.Credit.National Geographic/Disney+
April 16, 2021
âEarth Moods,â which landed on Disney+ on Friday, is a television show: five episodes, each 31 minutes long. So why does it look so much like a screensaver?
There are no voices in âEarth Moodsâ because there are no people. Just the abstract beauty of nature â the streaks and whorls of green water and red earth, as the screen drifts from dunes to reef to river delta. (There is an urban episode, âNight Lights,â but the aerial photography elides the human occupants of cars and buildings.) The soundtrack soughs and swells in step with the slowly moving cameras, occasionally giving way to the music of wind, water and birdsong.