Spectator by Seema Goswami: To binge or not to binge
Hindustan Times | BySeema Goswami
Aug 24, 2019 09:42 PM IST
That is the question, as streaming services make it all too easy to devour entire series in the course of an evening
I must admit that I am a little bleary-eyed as I sit down to write this column. And that’s because the second season of Sacred Games dropped on Netflix at midnight and I stayed up late – as you do – to binge-watch. All I managed were three episodes, though, before sleep got the better of me. But I am pretty sure that if the season had been released in the afternoon, I would have swallowed all of it down in one greedy gulp.
There’s no law that says you have to binge-watch a show just because it’s available in its entirety(Photo Imaging: Parth Garg)
Shows like (from top) Made in Heaven, Fleabag and Sacred Games have content that’s perfect to be consumed in one giant bite!
Would it be better if TV series dropped one episode at a time instead of the season and allowed us time to absorb plot twists?