So, I am currently doing a review blog for my senior project where I review both movies and television shows. So far it has been really fun, but there is one thing that both annoys and fills me with joy, binge watching.
For those of you unaware, binge watching is where someone watches episodes of a television show or multiple movies in a row continuously and not do anything. Now, I am not new to binge watching myself. I started doing it a lot back in late 2013 with Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, both of which are really great TV shows that everyone should watch. So far for my blog, I have binged on the entire second season and first half of the third season of the TV show Arrow and the first half of the spin off show The Flash (both of which are great). Really, I think binging is best summarized in this CollegeHumor video.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohtRFAat-WM
However, it has come to my attention that there is a certain element to binge watching that allows it to be both good and bad.
When binge watching (at least for me) one is trying to catch up on all the previous episodes so I can be up to date and will avoid spoilers or you just enjoy the show so much that you can't stop watching, which I have also done. The thing that annoys me with binge watching is that for a while I am so far behind everyone and have to watch all the episodes to catch up. Unfortunately, they are usually hour long episodes and it takes a long time. When I finally am all caught up I feel happy for a moment until I realize that I am depressed for many reasons, the main being that I now have to wait for more episodes which is annoying and the other being I now have a ton of free time. I experienced this when I first finished watching all of Breaking Bad. I was so happy to have finished, until I realized that I now had nothing to do and that made me depressed. So then I binged on the first two seasons of House of Cards and they were great. Then the cycle repeated itself. It seems that I am truly only happy when I am wasting through episodes one at a time and it annoys me that this is now the only way I can watch TV.
If you have any suggestions on really good TV shows to watch, please leave some in the comments. I have already watched Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Game of Thrones, Arrow, and The Flash.
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