Not binge watching shows

[daisym00n]

Do most people binge watch shows these days?

I watch loads of TV and have most of the streaming channels but I keep a list of shows I'm watching and move them to the bottom of the list so everything gets watched in order. However, I’ve got so many programmes on my list that’s it’s taking up to 3 weeks for something to get back to the top and so I'm finding it hard to remember what happened in the last episode I watched.

Do I need to give in and start binge watching?

(Yes I'm aware the list is sad, but it's also colour coded by channel/platform so makes me happy)

I don’t have time to binge watch but DH and I watch one programme at a time. We sit down together in the evenings and pick up from wherever we left off the night before. We don’t just watch a whole episode each night as the kids don’t always go to sleep at the same time each night and so the amount of time we have in the evenings varies but never more than 1.5 hours

Hmm. I think that’s probably what I mean by binge watching - just watching one series until it’s finished rather than watching 4 episodes in one evening. I probably don’t watch more than 2 hours per the evening.

We pretty much only binge watch, sometimes a full evening binge, other times one ep every couple of days. Rarely watch anything week by week when broadcast. As I read crime fiction and usually have one or 2 audiobooks on the go at the same time, there are only so many different story threads I can hold in my brain at once! Also I'm impatient to find out what happened

It’s actually my husband who prefers watching variety over the week but he’s worse than me for remembering what’s happened!

We have ‘regular’ programmes that we watch each week - things like Have I Got News for You, Bake Off, Taskmaster. When we watch a drama series, we only tend to have one on the go at a time to save us getting confused.

I don’t binge. All my threads on here are tv paced so usually weekly unless 1/2 o in a week like sun mon

Do I need to give in and start binge watching?

I'm sort of half binge watching.

I record a series, most are quite short now.

When all episodes have been broadcast I then watch 2 episodes an evening.

I prefer this as I cant remember plots or faces so 1 series a week spread out over 5 or 6 weeks, is just not interesting, engaging.

And do similar when I have a temporary sub to a streaming service. Only start watching when all episodes are available.

But like OP I found I had a lot of series recorded and looking at them I thought they dont look at all interesting.

I think this is how the 9pm slot works because most people accept that's what on and watch it. But when put in a list of choices you think that's not really worth spending time on!

DH and I have decided we will try binge watching two shows at a time so probably an episode of each per evening