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This chart suggests America’s addiction to television is not normal
Millions of Americans (including Barack Obama, apparently) attempted to binge-watch at least some of their way through the 13 hour-long episodes of the second season of Netflix’s hit political thriller House of Cards, which was released last weekend (a long holiday weekend in the US). Binge-watching is far from being a US-only phenomenon, as evidenced by the fact that the UK-based Oxford Dictionaries short-listed it for word of the year in 2013.
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How do these people have time to watch 8 hours of tv per day. Insane
I do Binge-Watch sometimes. But it's not a daily thing, though! I let my shows pile up on my Tivo and by the time I get time to watch them, (usually a weekend day that I have nothing planned) I can sit down and watch TV mostly all day, trying to get caught up.
Yeah, I tend to do the same thing.. but I wait for the show to run its series for the year, and then I dig in. I hate waiting a whole damn week to see what happens next episode.
When I'm watching with my husband, we will sit down and watch a whole series, but when it's just myself, I tend to watch a few episodes here and there of several different ones. I get tired of it if I watch one show back to back.
Yeah, when I watch shows I like to immerse myself into them... so back to back is the only way I roll.
I do the same, I try to stay away from spoilers but still trying to understand what shows are worth watching and after a year or so I start watching them.