The TV recap has become one of the most ubiquitous forms of criticism in contemporary media culture, proliferating across multiple media spheres and domains. At its simplest, it provides an opportunity for people to catch up with what they have missed. However, it is also a space for engaging with reactions to a program: an inherently affective and social experience. This article seeks to theorize the TV recap, its uses, and its pleasures. It considers the recap as a form of paratext, and seeks to unpack its relationship to textuality. Specifically, it considers the practice of reality TV recapping, which often positions both recapper and reader/viewer as consuming the text ironically. This article uses a corpus of recaps of the 2020 season of The Bachelor Australia – including recaps by the author – to answer three questions: how does the recap energize, contextualize, and modify textuality?

电视回顾已成为当代媒体文化中最普遍的批评形式之一，在多个媒体领域和领域扩散。简而言之，它为人们提供了一个追赶他们错过的东西的机会。然而，它也是一个参与对程序的反应的空间：一种内在的情感和社交体验。这篇文章试图对电视回顾、它的用途和它的乐趣进行理论化。它将重述视为一种副文本形式，并试图解开其与文本的关系。具体来说，它考虑了真人秀节目重述的做法，这通常将重述者和读者/观众都定位为具有讽刺意味的消费文本。本文使用了澳大利亚单身汉2020 赛季的回顾语料库 ——包括作者的回顾——回答三个问题：回顾如何激发、语境化和修改文本？