# Dropped shows: do you binge or spread out your consumption? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178 "2016-03-25T23:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/1 "2016-03-25T23:32:14Z")
Again inspired by the DD thread - and I am happy to see that the “clump of episodes” thread approach is so far enjoying some interest - How do most who post here consume the dropped season product (talking about seasons like DD seasons, not three ep ones). Do most binge? If not what at rate do you tend to consume dropped shows? ---
**Author:** ![iljitsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/2 "2016-03-25T23:59:11Z")
Wow, I was unable to decode ANY of that. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/3 "2016-03-26T01:24:21Z")
Records drop. Shows premiere. What’s “DD”? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/4 "2016-03-26T01:56:33Z")
I watch as soon as they appear. Same reason I eat dessert first and started taking Social Security at age 62. You never know. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/5 "2016-03-26T01:58:59Z")
DD is Daredevil - sorry. A Netflix show in its second season that releases all eps for the season at once. As they did for House of Cards. Now shows “drop” - i.e. release - whole seasons all at once. Some binge 'em and finish say all 13 episodes (nearly 13 hours of shows) within a few days. Some go more slowly. Sorry that I expressed it so poorly: the op is asking about how Dopers tend to consume shows that now release entire long seasons all at once, assuming they imbibe those shows at all. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/6 "2016-03-26T02:59:10Z")
For hour-longs like _Daredevil_ or _OITNB_ I do one a day or so. For sitcoms or half-hours like _Angie Tribeca_ or _Kimmy Schmidt_, I can go through two or three per day. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropped-shows-do-you-binge-or-spread-out-your-consumption/750178/7 "2016-03-26T03:18:33Z")
We don’t have cable, and even if we did, many of the shows shown in Britain or the US aren’t carried here anyway. So we rely on DVDs. Right now we’re on the second season of _Fargo_. We will do one or two at a time but don’t have time to watch more than that per sitting. Wish we did though. We’re also doing _Psych_ and up to season four now. Watch it whenever we get a chance. Can’t say we’ve ever “binged” per se.