What media have you consumed in a binge?

Cafe Society
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You ever binge watch or read a series of shows or books? What have you binge watched in your life? You watch all of Lost the first time you saw it in two weeks? You read all of the Harry Potter books in a week? You read the entire archive history of Order of the Stick in a short amount of time? Beat five or six Resident Evil games in a short amount of time? List all of the media binges you’ve gone on.

For me: I’ve watched every season of Lost, Dexter, Breaking Bad, and 24 in a short amount of time and most of Weeds, Ugly Betty, and Six Feet Under.
Although I’ve seen many of them many times before, I will occasionally watch a large amount of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Darkside, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, and Amazing Stories episodes all in a row.
Same with Looney Tunes and Disney animated shorts. From Netflix I pretty much ordered all of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection at once and watched them all in one night (12 hours).
I read all of the Harry Potter books in about a month.
I read most of the comic strip Lil’ Abner after acquiring all of the collections of it that are out so far.
While reading it daily in newspapers, I’ve gone through most of Foxtrot, Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, Dick Tracy, Baby Blues, and Luann via (legal) comic strip site archives.
I’m currently reading all of the mangas Ranma, InuYasha, and Death Note.
I’m also currently watching all of the anime Bleach.
I once listened to the entire Beatles Anthology in one day.

I’m sure you have equal or even more impressive binges. List them and brag.

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I’ve binged Rick & Morty, first season of American Horror Story, and Stranger Things. I regret nothing.

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Weeds. We caught it on DVD, and would watch a season in a weekend.

Other than that, nothing really. I prefer to wait between shows to digest what happened*. Also I don’t have the time to waste for a binge (Weeds was 6 1/2 hours over three days, so it was possible).

*I dislike PBS’s habit of doing Ken Burns documentaries in a week. It fills up far too much of my time and I don’t like to spend more than an hour and a half TV watching a night.

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When my son was born and I was staying up all night with him, I watched the entire run of Deadliest Warrior over a few days. It was sort of the perfect show for the occasion – sort of interesting but mindless and 40% of each episode is them recapping the other 60% so it’s hard to actually miss anything.

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Not so much recently, but two shows have pulled me into sone seriously long binge watching times.
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[li]West Wing[/li][li]Law and Order (the original)[/li][/ul]

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I watched every episode of House one week.

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I read all of Kurt Vonnegut in about a month. I can’t really remember what happened in which book.

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When I discovered Arrested Development in the middle of season 2, I binged all of season 1 in a day (22 eps), and the half of season 2 I hadn’t seen yet the next day. I can’t think of anything else I had gotten so hooked on. That show just tickled every funny bone in my body.

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I re-watched ST:ToS in a binge, got the special set, reading along with the Nitpickers guide. Great fun.

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Whenever I’ve started a new webcomic, I’ve binge-read the entire archives. Or at least started to: Some comics, I lost interest partway through the binge, and those comics I don’t end up following from that point on. The only exceptions have been comics I’ve started on early enough in their run that the then-current archives didn’t really count as a binge.

Going through my current rotation of webcomics, that would mean, let’s see…
Girl Genius
Piled Higher and Deeper
xkcd
Order of the Stick
Schlock Mercenary
Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes

I also follow Erfworld, Darths and Droids, and Oglaf, but those all fall into the started-early category.

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I missed the beginning of Buffy Vampire Slayer but caught a few episodes in reruns. So I ordered the DVD’s from Netflix & watched the whole thing in order–as quickly as the DVD’s could be returned & replaced.

In more modern times, I caught all of Supernatural on Netflix streaming.

Some of the Netflix/Amazon originals have been binged.

Most recently, I binged Person of Interest on Netflix. Damn, what a show…

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Orphan Black. Much of the plot is kinda dumb, but it’s a lot of fun.

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Underground comic books. In about 1973 or so I stayed with an older sibling and discovered a 3-foot stack of undergrounds, 100 or more at a guess. Read through it in more or less one interrupted sitting.

Blew my mind, it did. Hey, who was the underground character, a bit of a nebbish, with crosshatched black patches for eyes and white pupils?

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If my husband switches on HGTV, I can sit and watch it until I fall asleep or an episode of “Tiny Houses” comes on, whichever comes first.

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I was doing some painting of the house over several days once and I listened to the first 15 or so Bob Dylan albums in order.
mmm

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I just finished an “extreme mountaineering” reading binge. Books by Jon Krakauer, Joe Simpson, et al. I brought it to an end last night in finishing a good one (Burial in the Sky?) that considered a tragic K2 ascent from more of a Sherpa POV.

Last month it was scientific readings on rattlesnakes, which led me down the rabbit hole of non-fiction accounts of religious snake handling in Appalachian churches – I found three fairly good books on it, I was surprised.

As evident in my Kindle, I go through thematic reading binges with great frequency.

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I read the last two “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, AFFC and ADWD, straight through on the day they were published in about 24 hours.

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In the Navy I had almost two days off…at sea. Not a lot to do, I read Shogun in about 24 straight hours.

I once read everything Tom Robbins wrote in about two weeks.

Most recently, last week I was on vacation (actually a staycation) I bing watched all six seasons of Shameless, about 72 hours of insanity and mayhem.

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And you didn’t just give up in disgust and sit in a corner scowling? :smiley:

*And it’s a hahd
It’s a hahd
It’s a haaaahdddd… corner to reee-eee-eeeach.
*

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SWMBO and I recently bingewatched the last two seasons of Grimm.

And when I stumble across a new author that floats my boat, I’ll grab several of their books and have at them.