So real but yet so unreal

What is it with some tv-series that make us keep watching them episode after episode, restless while not being able to see what happens next and basically living our own emotional life through what the characters are feeling and doing? I have no idea, but yet again, I'm hooked. This time it is How I met your mother and I gotta say, it is simply awesome. I recommend it for everyone, but if you don't want to spend your days repeating an " I'll just watch one episode "-routine "since they are only 20 minutes long so I can watch another one". Yeah, that works until you realise you've seen half a season in a day. I know that isn't that much after all, but if you do it everyday? Seriously, we're talking about an addiction here. But the thing is: there is no rehab for it. The only thing that helps with the craving for a new episode, is watching a new episode. And another after it since some turning point is bound to happen just when you decided to watch only one. 

Like it is not enough that the shows lure us into countless hours of staring at the screen, they refuse to let go of us by a simple trick: yet another season of the beloved series, 'cause of course we are not ready to let go of the fantasy world we've learned to care so much about. It is impossible to finish with season 5 if you know there is a season 6 that reveals more and more twists in the plot and maybe someone gets married or breaks up or gets superpowers or dies so there is no choice than to follow it through. It is insane what kind of emotional bonds we form with the characters and how we experience real (or not so real, I've never quite decided if they are real or fake) emotions when they experience them. It is like we live inside the world they live in and follow the story as some super creepy invisible guy in the corner all the time. Only when an important person leaves the show, for example by dying a really unrealistic death (or just a very unwanted death, not referring to O.C at all, no...Neither Grey's Anatomy), we realise that this really is just imagination written by some awesome person who gave us the meaning of life for a while.

So what I am trying to say here, is that I think that there should be a warning before the episodes start; "might lead to an addiction". Just to be fair, so nobody gets surprised when they cry over a break-up that didn't even happen in the reality. Or find themselves using the best lines in a random conversation. But I honestly love watching series, I am exactly the kind of fool who loves to talk about the plot and the characters with the other fools. So, I'd better finish this now and reward myself, after writing such an incredible text once again, with an episode of How I met your mother.