I most recently binged on* The Good Place*…but that was pretty easy since there were only four episodes before tonight.
I’ve been working my way through The Office(USA version) over the last couple of weeks. There are some great lines that I missed the first time around and it’s fun watching the character interactions develop over the years.
When I was in bed with the flu back in grad school, I binge-read all the PG Wodehouse books in the university library, and they had a nearly complete collection.
On DVD, I often binge-watch things like The Prisoner, Columbo, Midsomer Murders, over a weekend or during a working day at home. I’ve also binge-watched Time Team on DVD or YouTube.
I recently bought all 5 series of* Call the Midwife* and binge-watched most of it in one go over Labor Day weekend. I counted the number of deliveries shown–77 babies in total!
I just finished a binge watch of Freaks and Geeks and I cried at the end.
Why?
The sitcom was based on a couple cliques of high school kids from the 1980-81 school year which was the same years I was a high school junior.
The show was based on a fictional town in the east side of metro Detroit and I grew up in metro Detroit too, except on the west side.
I cried, because the show was so well done, I felt like I was saying goodbye to a bunch of my school friends forever.
Fox Network screwed around with the show’s schedule so much that they couldn’t get a large enough following and the network finally cancelled it after 1 season.
The show had a large cult following. It is now on DVD and Netflix. It had such a great soundtrack and wonderful acting with people who spring boarded into lucrative acting careers after this show.
Highly recommend it, especially if you went to high school in the early 80’s. It will bring you back.
Last Sunday, I finished watching “Made in America”, the final “The Sopranos” episode. It took me about two weeks to go through all six seasons. It was my third viewing of the series and, once again, I felt a little sad when the screen suddenly turned black.
I binge watch a lot over the Internet when I’m in my apartment in Moscow. It beats watching imported shows with overdubbing (and most Russian-produced series, too).
In the last few years, I watched every episode of
Mad Men,
Boardwalk Empire,
Boss,
A Place to Call Home,
Pawn Stars, but only up through season five or six,
and probably some others I can’t recall off the top of my head.
I tried watching DS9 from the beginning, but it seemed the biggest things each week were where to put the kindergarden and Sisko moping over his wife.
There’s been some overlap, since I also spend a lot of time in Canada with cable TV.
Binge reading books? The Travis McGee series, most of Carl Hiaasen’s works, the Poldark series, and stuff like Alvin Fernald and Encyclopedia Brown when I was in grade school.
No, I won’t go near a Star Trek novel any more. Tried 'em, didn’t like 'em.
My M.O. for 24 was always to wait for the season to hit Netflix or Amazon Prime and then binge-watch in a day, along with Jack. Except I eat and occasionally hit the loo. The final bit in London was the only season I followed along as it aired.
Most of the time when I catch up on a series I’ll watch one or two episodes a week. The closest thing I came to a binge was when I was sick and watched the first three seasons of My Little Pony every day for nearly three months.
I don’t binge very often, but when I first got into Doctor Who, the spouse and I watched all of David Tennant’s and Christopher Eccleston’s episodes, and the Matt Smith ones that were available on Netflix at the time, in a couple of weeks.
Starting with Goblet of Fire, I got each of the new Harry Potter books at midnight and read straight through until I finished them.
As a kid I used to binge the kid mystery series: Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, and the Three Investigators, as fast as I could get my hands on them.
I don’t really binge-watch at home, but my sister’s been quite ill over the past year and we’ll indulge when I’m over at her place. Most recent series I can think of are the Mr. Bean episodes, and season 1 of The Man in the High Castle.