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As it relates to television series, the hook index is the average number of episodes one must watch before they are committed to watching the rest of the series. For instance, Breaking Bad may have a hook index of 3. Meaning, you have to make it through episode three in order to really stay with the series (mostly because of the icky bathtub scene from episode 2.
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