Can you 'binge watch' TV shows?

StanleyAccrington

For whatever reasons I didn't watch The Sopranos when it was aired on TV. Now I can't get enough of it. My current record is watching 4 episodes back to back. (Some great music snippets in the programme's too).

Dopesick

StanleyAccrington said:

For whatever reasons I didn't watch The Sopranos when it was aired on TV. Now I can't get enough of it. My current record is watching 4 episodes back to back. (Some great music snippets in the programme's too).

What season are you on? When it gets to Season 6 I think your current record will be smashed.

SRich

Lovely old Mr.Sky encourages binge watching in a very disingenuous way, when if you're watching a Box Set (re-watching Deadwood and I'm up to the last series of 3) they then download the next episode..........up it pops.

And it would be rude not to, wouldn't it.   

joneve

SRich said:

Lovely old Mr.Sky encourages binge watching in a very disingenuous way, when if you're watching a Box Set (re-watching Deadwood and I'm up to the last series of 3) they then download the next episode..........up it pops.

And it would be rude not to, wouldn't it.   

I recently discovered this (I don't usually use it as my internet is fucking terrible) and smashed through 5 episodes of Sons of Anarchy without hesitation on Saturday. 

axisus

I think that a part of my brain thinks of TV as a waste of precious time. I don't actually think that it is a waste of time, it's just a form of entertainment, but that bit of my brain says go and do something else now you fekkin fat couch potato.

TheBlueWolf

I have done but I don't have the attention span these days.

Blueingreen

Can't do it either.  Been known to watch a couple of episodes of, say, Mad Men back to back, but that would be pretty rare.  Nowadays I tend to watch even movies in chunks, I find a solid two hours of the same thing a bit too much.  Different in the cinema of course, but even then I often find I'm getting a bit restless half way through a film, even when I think it's pretty good.

bingefeller

I do get bored quickly and get put off the show.  

fretmeister

Yes, if it good enough.

CabbageCat

There have definitely been Sundays where I've had a show going from morning-time to nighty-night. I'd probably have paused it during yumyums and peepee though.

Winny_Pooh

2 usually
I did once watch Twin Peak's first season in a day though.

littlegreenman

Winny_Pooh said:

2 usually
I did once watch Twin Peak's first season in a day though.

Did that (on VHS!) and then went to see Fire: Walk with me at the cinema with a bunch of friends years ago.

I was late to the Breaking Bad and GoT party so binge watched both of them 'til I got caught up, at least 3 a day, was proper knackered in work for a few weeks.

Danny1969

If it's something superb like The Sopranos or The Wire I could happily do 4 or 5 episodes in a row 

Very into "The night of" at the mo and it's a pain waiting a week for the next one

Benson

I've just done 42 episodes of Game of Thrones in five days, I think you could consider that a binge. I'll caveat it by saying I came out of hospital on Sunday and am not supposed to be moving!

duotone

I used to be able to, did series 2 of The Wire one Sunday.  Now after 2-3 episodes I want a break from it.

chrispy108

Yeah, binging a good TV show is one of my favourite things.