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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8909217" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I ... I have complicated feelings about binge watching. So complicated I am sure I wrote a 20,000 word essay about it at some point. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Anyway. I am so conditioned to binge watching that I find it almost impossible to watch TV shows the "old way" anymore. I will deliberately wait until a season (minimum) is ready to go so that I can watch them all. The few exceptions are, unsurprisingly, some buzzy HBO shows (like White Lotus). That said, I don't necessarily think it's great for most serialized TV. A lot of shows that are released as "binge-able" shows suffer from pacing problems, perhaps caused because they are meant to be binged- why worry about pacing when they are going to be consumed at once. It also makes it really hard to talk to other people about shows; with a very few exceptions, there's no "water cooler shows," and no shows people are watching at the same time ... except for live sports, really. Like a lot of things in society, I think it is great individually but bad in the aggregate. In other words, I love it for me, but hate what it's doing overall. If that makes sense.</blockquote>