I used to come on here and rant about how screwed up binging TV series seemed to me. Now I love finding an old show I missed and binging every season of it. I did that with The Wire, Hannibal, The Man in the High Castle, Counterpart, Homeland, Homecoming, Vice Principals, Boardwalk Empire, and more I know I'm forgetting. I didn't start watching The Expanse until Season 5, so I got to binge all of that and only wait on the last few seasons.

I don't think I've watched anything week to week since the third seasons of Fargo, and Snowfall (both 2019). The crazy part of it is I still have cable!

I usually wait for three or four episodes to come out now before I start a new season of a show. I miss out on the threads about episodes, but I don't feel like I'm really missing much.

This post was edited on 6/16/22 at 6:39 pm

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Posted by Jack Ruby

Member since Apr 2014

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Posted on 6/16/22 at 6:47 pm to chinese58

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used to come on here and rant about how screwed up binging TV series seemed to me. Now I love finding an old show I missed and binging every season of i

Finding an old show and blasting through it is not the same. Yeah, it's great that way to just sit down and watch a whole season or series but it doesnt matter because the show is long over.

Having a huge show go week to week and stay in the lexicon and news cycle of the public for a couple of months, and finding all the breakdowns and podcasts and analysis clips of people discussing interesting plot points is half the fun of mysterious shows like Stranger Things.

The first show I remember really taking hold of this was Lost, and True Detective S1 used it amazingly as well. but the tactic has been around for decades Hell, "who shot J.R." lasted for the entire summer after the season finale, and that was back in the 80s with no internet.

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Posted by sportsaddit68

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Posted on 6/17/22 at 11:48 am to chinese58

I think it's different for everyone. If you only get about 3 hours on a Saturday to watch TV, you could binge a show on Saturdays. If you have a couple hours every night, you can wait and watch the episodes the day they come out. But by it coming out weekly, you could always wait and binge a few episodes at a time.

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