Binged a 14 season show in 3 weeks and now I'm lost

So I power watched this cop drama from 2005, all 14 seasons, during a slow stretch at work last month. By season 9 I was skipping meals and dreaming in procedural jargon, my wife said I looked like a zombie. Finished the finale on a Tuesday night at like 2am and just sat there staring at the credits. Now every new show feels flat because I keep comparing it to that one. Anyone else hit a post-binge slump this bad, what did you watch next to snap out of it?

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julia_fisher2822h ago

The last time I felt this hollow after finishing something was when I blew through all of The Wire in a month back in college, and I actually started taking notes on police procedure like I was prepping for something. Took me a solid two weeks of rewatching dumb reality TV to reset my brain, honestly. You might just need to lean into the void and watch something completely opposite, like a cooking show where nothing bad ever happens.