Would this show be better if it was binge watch?

[Davetello]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

^This. Lots of shows I could never get into, until Netflix, when I could sit down and watch episode to episode, uninterrupted. This was especially helpful when watching a show like 24, in which the episodes and story arcs are super interlinked, and you could miss or forget something if you had to wait between hiatus and season premieres.

Yeah, it's just a bit outdated now. I know people like the 'watercooler' effect, but it's just too difficult to become engrossed in a show when you have to wait a week between episodes (or longer in the case of this show).

I suppose counter-arguments would be that we'd have longer to wait in between seasons, and that the gap between seasons would replicate the problem of the gap between weekly episodes in a single season, but it would still be more preferable to what happens now.

Technically we could just watch shows which are already completed/well into their run, and let new shows build up over a few seasons before watching - but who's likely to do that when a fresh new exciting show comes along? Nobody really has the patience to let it build up, and it's a shame because I feel I'd have enjoyed shows like OUAT and American Horror Story even more if I could have watched seasons over a day or two.