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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I get it. These days, I find it far more enjoyable to watch an entire season or seasons on consecutive nights as opposed to once a week.
I watched 24, the first two seasons of Lost, season two of Homeland and Justified's first three seasons on consecutive nights and found them far more enjoyable than once a week for 13 or 24 weeks.
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A lot of us do that. I know I currently have the full season for GoT (still) waiting on my DVR. Recently watched all of The Wire and Deadwood on HBOGo.
With me it started in the late 90s, when the combination of video codec technology and greater bandwidth led to the ability to start downloading (not legally, then...) larger format stuff. I think the introduction of DVD was big as well, giving you the ability to have a full season or even series on a small, easy-to-store medium (and many of these were ripped onto the internet - you didn't have to be able to convert VHS to a digital format...). Now with DVR and streaming and Blu-ray there's really no reason to limit yourself to a network schedule. And I think a big part of it is also the change we've seen in the same time frame to a more serial kind of storytelling on television. There are less self-contained shows (or dramas at least) and more shows where you're invested week-to-week in a season-long ongoing arc. Which I think plays better in a single-sitting or viewing over a few days, rather than stretching it over 8 or 9 months.
Call me impatient.
Hell, even with the stuff I watch regularly, a lot of the time I'll wait and watch a month's worth of episodes at once, rather than watching every week. Doing it with The Bridge today, in fact.