批評式觀看 hate-watching

在各類電視節目多如牛毛的時代，有時候我們會發現一些節目口碑并不佳，但收視率卻也不低，罵的人多看的人也多。有人說，之所以看一檔很爛的節目就是為了更好地批評它。這樣的觀看行為好像國內外還都不少呢。

Hate-watching (also often appearing as hatewatching) is the activity of regularly watching a television program which you think is extremely bad, and doing so specifically because you have the intention of criticizing it, from which in turn you derive a considerable amount of pleasure. People who partake, dubbed hate-watchers, don't usually do so in isolation, but communicate their feelings via social media to a group of like-minded viewers, who revel together in the opportunity to grumble about the program's inadequacies.

Hate-watching（也可以拼作hatewatching）指定期觀看一檔你認為非常爛的電視節目，這樣做是為了對這個節目提出批評，而你則從中得到極大的滿足感，我們可以稱之為“批評式觀看”。這樣的觀眾被稱為“批評式觀眾”，而且他們并不是單獨行動，而是通過社交媒體與持有相同觀點的其他觀眾一起交流，他們為這個目的聚在一起，肆意聲討那檔節目的不足之處。

But it's not just TV programs that can be hate-watched, but also the people or characters within them. Sometimes a show might be basically okay, but contain one particular annoying or unconvincing character which will allow viewers to indulge in smaller bouts of hate-watching. And of course reality shows invariably provide a raft of individuals from which hate-watchers can pick and choose – the self-important candidates in the BBC's Apprentice series are a classic example of hate-watchable types. (Source: macmillandictionary.com)

不過，批評式觀看并不限于電視節目，節目中的某個人或角色也有可能成為批評觀看的目標。有時候，某檔節目可能大體上還不錯，只是有一個特別惹人厭惡或不具說服力的角色會讓觀眾小規模地進行批評觀看。當然，真人秀從來都能為批評式觀眾提供大量可供選擇的批評對象，英國廣播公司的求職真人秀節目《學徒》里面那些自命不凡的選手就是典型的可供批評觀看的對象。

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