What media have you consumed in a binge?

Too many Netflix binges to mention, but I did burn through all of Axe Cop in a day. That might be the funniest strip I ever read.

I worked in a library during high school. Back then libraries were serious places. They carried hardback books. Period. But for reasons I never could learn, my library had an entire row of Perry Mason paperbacks, about 40. I read all of them. Then never picked up another for 50 years. I did recently and they aren’t bad.

Sometime in the 1970s or 80s private eye novels were the hot new trend. I read about 50 one year. Still haven’t read one since.

I binge watch TV series on DVD all the time, too many to name.

I’d say my earliest binges were on particular authors’ works, e.g. Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Charlotte Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, etc.

I will go on anime binges from time to time. Last year I blasted through the following series in maybe about 3-4 weeks.

Death Note (rewatched it for either 3rd or 4th time)
Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online II
Attack on Titan
Ajin: Demi-Human
RWBY Seasons 1,2,3

I binged on Murdoch Mysteries when it was at season 6 I think, and I binged on Rookie Blue when it was at season 5. Hmm, both Canadian shows. Weird coincidence.

I’ve also rewatched shows on a binge, like Chuck. And I recently binge-watched an older series I’d never seen before called Early Edition, from the late 90s.

My record is 11 episodes in one day(back to back to back…) of Angel back around November of 2002. I started from episode 1 and got to episode 73 in about 3 weeks.

I bootlegged them back then since streaming wasn’t really a thing. I own all 5 seasons on DVD now, though.
I binged Walking Dead through season 4 in about 1 1/2 months.

Most recently, I binged the Casefiles podcast over one road trip and finished the rest of the series to date over the following week on my commute. Something about the narrator’s Aussie accent and the fascinating details of the true crime stories makes it hard to turn off.

This is essentially the only way we even watch TV anymore, with Rick & Morty being a recent example.

Most days we don’t watch TV at all; if the kids aren’t home we might watch BoJack Horseman or Family Guy while eating dinner. But for the most part the TV never comes on.

When a worthy show comes around - be it one we trust or a highly recommended one - we always wait until there’s a season of it, and then it’s a big, fun event where we watch a crapload of it over the course of a few days.

Besides watching the CCTV tapes of the OP taking showers other recent things I’ve binged on are:

Watched the first four seasons of GoT in a month to get caught up to watch season 5 in real time.
Deadwood - damn that was about to get soooooooooooooo good and then the cocksuckers canceled it. (And I don’t even like Westerns.)
But I don’t really like binging. I like having a show to watch each night as something to look forward to. So even if I have a show on Blue Ray I’ll still only watch one episode a night or every couple of nights depending what’s on regular TV.

I bought Season 1 of Justified on a lark. Hadn’t seen it before, but it was cheap. I took a chance.

I watched 6 episodes that very night and was late to work the next day. Saw every episode of every season more than once. I often have it on in the background through Amazon.

I think my fastest binge was Dexter, every episode in about a week. I was sick and had nothing else to do with my time. Weeds I’m sure I binged on and over the past few days I’ve binged on Key and Peele. I went through every season of Arrested Development recently in a matter of days.

My favorite binge has been Game of Thrones. We tried SO HARD to space them out. My daughter had already seen and loved and read the books and knew all the little secrets so the best part for me was her company. I am squeamish so I had the pleasure of her “you might want to turn away for this” a few times… per episode! I actually got to the point where it no longer bothered me except when it came to the children. Anyway, we tried so hard with the last season we were going make it last until next year when new episodes came out. It just didn’t work out. We couldnt help ourselves until every episode was seen and every theory was discussed. :slight_smile:

I remember many years ago I binged on every Steinbeck I could get my hands on after falling in love with The Grapes of Wrath. I was a strange kid.

How timely. Last night I just finished up Asimov’s “Future History” series in story order - which is the Robots, Empire and Foundation series strung together. I’d read the first 5 Foundation books before, but everything else was new to me.

Earlier this Spring I decided to catch up on Steven Universe to clear my DVR before the Summer of Steven started. 60 episodes in about 3 weeks. (I’d fallen behind by about a year and a half)

I read The Complete Far Side collection in about 2 days. Larson was wise to retire when he did, as towards the end he was getting really repetitive. I didn’t notice it reading one strip a day in the paper, but at the rate of 10 years worth in 2 days, the recycling of jokes becomes really obvious. Some things are better off not being binged, and daily comics is one of them.

For the old school version of binge watching: I didn’t watch Star Trek:The Next Generation until late in the 4th season. At the time the first 3 seasons had just entered second-run syndication, so I was able to catch up by taping 1 episode a night over about 3 months.

Back in the 80s, I got a very sore ass in a theatre watching all 3 Mad Max films back-to-back.

The toughest binge was about 6 years ago when my kids and I decided to watch all 29 Toho Godzilla flicks. The difficulty was that there was no single source for all of them. We ended up using 3 local library systems for DVDs (and in 2 cases VHS tapes), Netflix DVDs, Netflix streaming, Crackle streaming, Verizon on-demand and for the last hold-out, recording it off of Turner Classic Movies. It took close to 6 months to track down all of them. Of course, a few years later, I find almost all them in the bargain bin at Best Buy, rereleased to cash in on the American reboot.

Not so strange, I think. My grandparents were dustbowl Okies who could’ve been characters in that novel. As part of the retirement bucket list, I’m going to retrace the route they followed in their Model-A to California.

What did you think of “Travels with Charley”? It was my favorite of Steinbeck’s.

Returning to the OP’s question:
I discovered X-Files long after the seasons were over. I bought all nine seasons on DVD and spent most of a summer watching them back to back.

A history professor at a small college in Stephenville TX has written an alternate universe series called Destroyermen. I’m binging my way through them now. I’m on book 9 (of 12).

Every time a new season of Orange is the New Black starts I always tell myself I’m going to spread it out. That works for a few episodes and then I find myself staying up all night watching the remainder of the season.

I scarfed down The Tudors several episodes at a time. Gosh I miss that show.

Most recently I watched nearly all of the first season of *Lucifer *in one day.

I binge stuff all the time, so I’ll go with the most recent: I watched all of Luke Cage on Netflix the night it was released (they were available here starting at 2 a.m.). I read all of the “Mr. Mercedes” books by Stephen King over the course of a weekend. I watched Season 6 of Archer just yesterday.

My job has a 4-days-on/3-days-off schedule, so I can binge something and still have a full weekend of outdoor activities. I also like bingeing tv because I have a “couch potato” workout I do between eps. When people say “you’re in pretty good shape” it’s fun to reply “Well, I watch a lot of television.”

After the 1st season of The Expanse (TV series) ended, I went through all 5 novels it’s based on in a couple of weeks. Combination of e-book and audiobook - bought both from Amazon; Kindle app syncs progress between them.

(Actually the 1st season of the TV series only covers the first half of the first novel.)

Me too. For me, it was a poor choice, because it made clear how ridiculously formulaic it was. Mystery ailment. Wrong diagnosis 1. Nearly Fatal reaction 1. Bad diagnosis 2. Nearly fatal reaction 2. Someone makes a comment. House cocks and eyebrow, squints, sighs and orders a new treatment. Patient recovers.

I watched Breaking Bad with no ill effects whatsoever.

We watched the whole of Downton Abbey 3 or 4 episodes a night over consecutive nights. I have no idea why I found it so enjoyable; I hate the privileged classes like only a working-class oik can. Guess I was happy to be visually and mentally wrapped in something warm and fluffy after a cruel day’s work.

Firefly

Each series of “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” for IMCDb.