Carnivale definitely counts as 'prestige TV', at least in terms of marketing, but I guess I always saw it as more american gothic than fantasy.
(ie no dragons).
While it’s nice to binge some shows (particularly if they’re actually paced for it, which is extremely rare) I would much rather have the week to week conversations with my coworkers and friends where we’re all at the same point and have a thing to discuss besides the ending.
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The article says its only for two shows right now, one of which is the newest Great British Bake Off. That makes sense since it just started airing in the UK, so now the US gets to watch it at the same time instead of after it ends
hell, if a new season drops of something a bunch of people here watch I usually can't even look at the relevant thread until I've 100% caught up, because even with rigorous spoiler tagging I'll often accidentally open something thinking it's about an earlier season/episode (did this to myself with Killing Eve quite recently). I like being able to have discussions about shows as I watch them, weekly installments makes that a lot easier for me.
GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
edited September 2019
Yeah I think binge watch culture just flattens almost all of these series into their base plot beats for me. Like I just dont retain it at all, much less think of it in any deeper construct. For instance I'd be hard pressed to tell you much about Stranger Things s3 except the blisteringly obvious things like there were Russians and a mall.
I dunno. I try to imagine how punishing something like Twin Peaks s3 would be for me if it dropped all at once. And I had to scramble to watch it all. As opposed to a really fun couple months of growing discussion around whatever fever dream we had seen that week.
The article says its only for two shows right now, one of which is the newest Great British Bake Off. That makes sense since it just started airing in the UK, so now the US gets to watch it at the same time instead of after it ends
Hopefully they start doing this with their other international shows too.
Superstore is continuing to be very good, although I find Jonah to be a pretty dull character. Also, does Dina eventually become less of a (this is very reductive comparison but it's the best one I can think of) female Ron Swanson? She's enjoyable and I like her, but she does come off as kind of the most... stereotypical?
Jonah is the everyman so he's always kinda boring
later on they focus less on him and also poke more fun at him when they do
dina is more of a Dwight Schrute type than ron swanson to me
I like this because my friend group somehow manages to binge 10 episode hour long tv shows in like three days and it takes me like ... at least a couple of weeks and I always end up getting spoilered because of memes they share or something.
Yeah I think binge watch culture just flattens almost all of these series into their base plot beats for me. Like I just dont retain it at all, much less think of it in any deeper construct. For instance I'd be hard pressed to tell you much about Stranger Things s3 except the blisteringly obvious things like there were Russians and a mall.
I dunno. I try to imagine how punishing something like Twin Peaks s3 would be for me if it dropped all at once. And I had to scramble to watch it all. As opposed to a really fun couple months of growing discussion around whatever fever dream we had seen that week.
I find that if a show is sufficiently dense and well-constructed, I will end up pacing myself to a couple of episodes a week max in any case, because I need the psychological space to digest it. It took me about a month to watch The Terror, for example. And also I can't focus on anything else while I do it, so it becomes an event. I think bi-weekly is my natural pace for anything requiring more than a superficial amount of attention.
Something like Veronica Mars, I'll churn through two or three episodes at a sitting, but I can also paint or knit or proofread while I do it, and I don't give a fuck about spoilers for that kind of thing.
I am not a fan of binging shows, I will watch like... 1-2 episodes of a show a night and then be good, unless it ends on a HUGE cliffhanger.
Like I think that Rachel and I ended up watching the last 3-4 episodes of Season 1 of Barry in a row because that show just goes.
First and last show I ever actually binged (in the sense of "watched the entire thing in one sitting") was when I bought the DVD set of Firefly to watch with my dad, and he was extremely jetlagged so we ended up staying up till 3am to finish the whole box. There's no way I have the time to watch an entire series of anything nowadays in less than a week, unless it's like 6 episodes.
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Yeah there are plenty of shows I dont mind just tossing on. But a lot of the denser stuff I want to sit down with and actually appreciate beyond background noise when Im drawing or cleaning. Unfortunately this inevitably means I just don't watch very much tv any more. Because there is too much of it released too quickly for me to have any possibility of keeping up with.
But Im also someone that also considers the conversations around the show just as much part of the show sometimes. So if I feel like the cultural conversation has dissipated it goes on a backburner I may never get to.
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edited September 2019
When it comes to bingeing...usually I'll like watch 6-10 episodes, have my fill and not even look at a show again for like another 1-3 months.
So yeah, I've never been big on it.
TBH I feel like there was a big "fear of missing out" effect when it came to some people's bingeing habits.
I definitely stayed up way too late watching Russian Doll, the structure of the episodes made it a series I would argue was developed explicitly for the binge era. Maniac as well - they're basically long episodic movies, with a pretty tightly woven through-story.
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Yeah, there are very few shows I binged where like I was just on the edge of my seat episode to episode and time just few by.
I think Orphan Black S1 is probably the last time I did that in recent memory.
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On an only tangentially related note, but it has lodged itself into my brain since I read it and this discussion has dredged it up again
Polygon interviewed one of the dudes behind the Telltale Games "revival", and he spat out this gem
Ottilie explained that the company is looking at evolving Telltale’s episodic model. “We will probably keep the concept of episodes but with different pacing. This is a different world, from a media consumption standpoint. We need to look at how people like to entertain themselves. I like the idea of binge watching.”
Binge watching
Episodic
Video gaaaaaaaaames
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Wasn't rapid iteration without any real evolution the reason Telltale collapsed in the first place?
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Okay but what is an episodic video game where you release all the episodes at the same time, my brain has been on fucking fire since I read that quote
I'm realizing that the reason I am like this is at least 30 percent because I hate talking to my coworkers about tv shows
Most of my coworkers do not watch the same tv as me, which is great because I don't have to listen to their dumb opinions, but bad because I can't bore them with my dumb opinions.
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It's got magic, but it's set between WW1&2 so I don;t know if it really counts as "fantasy" for the purposes of this question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivàle
Both of which were amazing.
(ie no dragons).
Can't say I'm surprised. That whole all at once method didn't seem scalable.
But it is funny watching these streaming services slowly become what they tried to replace.
This just means I'll need to wait until seasons are finished
Thankfully I dont care about spoilers at least
I dunno. I try to imagine how punishing something like Twin Peaks s3 would be for me if it dropped all at once. And I had to scramble to watch it all. As opposed to a really fun couple months of growing discussion around whatever fever dream we had seen that week.
Hopefully they start doing this with their other international shows too.
Ugh.
Sounds like they've been getting tips from my wife.
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You know that’ll have weekly releases too
Jonah is the everyman so he's always kinda boring
later on they focus less on him and also poke more fun at him when they do
dina is more of a Dwight Schrute type than ron swanson to me
I find that if a show is sufficiently dense and well-constructed, I will end up pacing myself to a couple of episodes a week max in any case, because I need the psychological space to digest it. It took me about a month to watch The Terror, for example. And also I can't focus on anything else while I do it, so it becomes an event. I think bi-weekly is my natural pace for anything requiring more than a superficial amount of attention.
Something like Veronica Mars, I'll churn through two or three episodes at a sitting, but I can also paint or knit or proofread while I do it, and I don't give a fuck about spoilers for that kind of thing.
Like I think that Rachel and I ended up watching the last 3-4 episodes of Season 1 of Barry in a row because that show just goes.
First and last show I ever actually binged (in the sense of "watched the entire thing in one sitting") was when I bought the DVD set of Firefly to watch with my dad, and he was extremely jetlagged so we ended up staying up till 3am to finish the whole box. There's no way I have the time to watch an entire series of anything nowadays in less than a week, unless it's like 6 episodes.
But Im also someone that also considers the conversations around the show just as much part of the show sometimes. So if I feel like the cultural conversation has dissipated it goes on a backburner I may never get to.
So yeah, I've never been big on it.
TBH I feel like there was a big "fear of missing out" effect when it came to some people's bingeing habits.
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I think Orphan Black S1 is probably the last time I did that in recent memory.
Polygon interviewed one of the dudes behind the Telltale Games "revival", and he spat out this gem
Binge watching
Episodic
Video gaaaaaaaaames
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Most of my coworkers do not watch the same tv as me, which is great because I don't have to listen to their dumb opinions, but bad because I can't bore them with my dumb opinions.
I know I frustrate @Moriveth a lot because of it! We have very different habits
Binge watching makes me depressed.
Or I'm depressed so I binge watch.
Either way, I'm happier when I don't do it.
Friends? What the fuck's a friends, fuck you
Yeah but Netflix has been building strikes for awhile.
I'm just always thinking of the other stuff I could be doing!