I don't watch True Detective, yet, but just wanted to chime in on the all-at-once vs weekly debate. I started watching Breaking Bad on NetFlix. I'd burn through a season in about a week or two. Watching the last seasons live sucked. I did the same thing with Walking Dead. I just recently watched Season 5, in about 3-4 days. I would hate watching it weekly. Too much is going on, and stretching it over a pair of 8 weeks of episodes, would have lost something. Even when I had cable and DVR, I would let about 4-5 episodes of a show build up and then my wife and I would pick one to binge watch over the weekend.

I understand the networks like AMC will keep on doing the weekly distribution, but I would hope someone like HBO would be forward thinking and follow the NetFlix model of releasing a whole season at once for streamers. If you are already a subscriber, it is free to stream anyways.

Amazon's original content is like this as well. I have watched about half the first season of Bosch. With NetFlix and Amazon, I like that I don't have to worry about when a show airs. If I want it now, I have it now.

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Posted by DallasTiger11

Los Angeles

Member since Mar 2004

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Posted on 7/31/15 at 5:22 pm to abellsujr

I'm convinced that Pizzolatto has some epic blackmail on Lombardo. No one has the kind of power HBO gives Nic. No one on Netflix, not Weiner, not Gilligan, not David Chase. And Pizzolotto was a total nobody before last year.

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Posted by Murray

Member since Aug 2008

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Posted on 7/31/15 at 6:24 pm to abellsujr

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This week to week shite is only good for shows that have individual stories each episode, IE Supernatural.

Or Chuck

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Posted by TigerintheNO

New Orleans

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 7/31/15 at 8:47 pm to M1zz0u

Marty watches season 2 not happy

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Posted by THRILLHO

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Member since Apr 2006

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Posted on 7/31/15 at 9:18 pm to TigerintheNO

I'm actually going to have a chance to binge watch S2 if I want. I stopped about 10 minutes into episode 3, with the plan to binge it if consensus was that it drastically improved. I'll find out in a few weeks.

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Posted by abellsujr

New England

Member since Apr 2014

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Posted on 7/31/15 at 9:28 pm to THRILLHO

The wind of change is upon us. Thank you Jesus:

Starz to Offer Binge Watch Option for Da Vinci’s Demons & Flesh and Bone

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At today’s Starz Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation, Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced a unique and special opportunity for binge watchers as he revealed all episodes of the third and final season of “Da Vinci’s Demons” and the widely-anticipated limited series “Flesh and Bone” will be available exclusively for STARZ subscribers on STARZ PLAY and STARZ ON DEMAND corresponding with the respective first episode premieres on October 24 and November 8.

The binge-ing opportunities give STARZ subscribers online and on-demand options to watch all ten episodes of season three of “Da Vinci’s Demons” from creator and executive producer by David S. Goyer and all eight episodes of “Flesh and Bone” from Emmy award-winning “Breaking Bad” writer and executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett, in advance of the respective episode premieres on STARZ.

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