Poll of the Day > when watching shows, which do you prefer?

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So for the "weekly when the show airs" I basically just mean you watch an episode on the day it airs when it airs only one episode a day at the minimum. I used weekly just cause I think that's most common for shows. But if you watch something like soap operas, which come out daily, that would be the same option.

For binge watch, I don't mean you watch an entire season in one sitting. But that you are watching at least 2-3 episodes or more per day. And usually this means the entire season is viewable. Whether that be from the season being over or just if it's on a streaming thing like Netflix and they just release the whole season at once.

And lastly, this counts anything that's basically a "made for TV" show. That includes animated and non-animated shows.
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Weekly is like being teased

Binging is the full monty
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I tend to favour binge watching and normally wait until a series ends before I bother watching. Still I watched all episodes of GoT right up to season 7 and then watched season 7 when it aired. Due to this I didn't think that much of season 7 and hated waiting every week just to see a bit more of the plot. It makes me feel disconnected from shows when I watch them once a week.
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I can watch things weekly, but I prefer just binge watching.
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I prefer binge watching. I especially hate when shows run for half a season and then take a month or two off. The Walking Dead and Vikings do this.
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Weekly. Waiting 'til the end of the season to binge watch, for me, leaves too much chance of spoilers and missing out on conversation on any particular episode.
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Binge is preferred, but coworkers always spoil stuff if I wait
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Binge watching, by a wide margin.

Also, I don't binge watch until cliffhangers are resolved. That means I got two seasons behind on The Walking Dead instead of one.
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Binge watching.
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I don't think I could focus long enough to binge watch a show, even if it is one of my favorites.
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what? i don't binge watch shows, but then again i hardly like anything. For smallville i watched it every week when it aired, i couldn't even wait for it to come on every week. I could never wait for the episodes to come to dvd. But after watching it every week i did still get the dvd set. Greatest show ever.
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'weekly when the show airs'

The only show I've ever binge watched was 'Dead like me', and that is because I am a sucker for shows about death (except Six Feet under).

While I would prefer binge, it depends on the show. Something like GoT you need to watch as it comes out because it's heavily spoiled. Then there were shows I couldn't wait long enough to binge but, thanks to changes with streaming services, I've started to binge more of that anyway.

Granted, some shows work better as a weekly, others as a binge. It depends on how they handle the running continuity because you'll have characters doing things out-of-character at times which you pick up more during a binge (Supernatural, for instance, frequently changes the Winchesters' personalities a bit to suit that episode's storyline).

Roachmeat posted...

'weekly when the show airs'

The only show I've ever binge watched was 'Dead like me', and that is because I am a sucker for shows about death (except Six Feet under).

Pretty good show (well, as those supernatural dramedies go). Shame it didn't last long. Also the movie was a pretty awful cap since it didn't really resolve much and had little connection to the events of the series.
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