do you like to tv binge? i.e. netflix..

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I used to binge watch, but I kept getting into a cycle of watching way too much one day to the point where it affected my work, then getting burnt out and realizing that it was stupid to do so and going the other direction and not watching any tv whatsoever for a long time. Then when I did inevitably watch something again I would binge watch it and the cycle would repeat.

Now I make it a point to not watch more than one episode of any show each day, but I usually watch about 2-3 episodes (of different shows) each day. Because I can do that without having it affect the rest of my life very much, I can be more consistent with it and I find that I actually watch more shows over the course of the year than I did when I binged.
 
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I am guilty as charged when it comes to Netflix.

I had originally subscribed just so I could watch Longmire again, but then I got reeled in even more by some other of my favorite shows.

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Have had Netflix for years (it's my "cable" as I don't have cable) but rarely "binge" at all. For one I can't sit and watch TV that long either, but also it ruins it because then something I like that I could have enjoyed for weeks or even months is gone very quickly. To me that's one of the great things about TV before streaming or even VCRs and one advantage of not controlling what's on or how much you could watch. For ex kids today will never know the thrill I knew as a little kid when the Christmas specials came on...because you could only see them ONCE a year, which made them all that more special. What's special about something you can watch 100 times in a row? blech.
 
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Me and the kids just love, right or wrong, binge watching. My neighbor, in my house, down stairs, had the whole house hooked up with dish, for a couple hundred a month, and invited us to watch as much as we want. The stuff we liked, on dish, had about fifteen minuets of commercials for every ten minuets of watching the show. Netflix, of course, has no commercials. Plus, it was not on demand where you just stop and start where ever and when ever, you want, like Netflix. Then we spent massive aggravating minuets surfing through the four hundred channels. We have abandon dish for our beloved Netflix. It does not get any better than streaming Netflix for $8.00 per month. For another $8.00 per month we do the mail DVDs. This is good too. I have a hard time on the query to select a new release movie that we have not seen. Of course we only get the pg 13 movies.

We are now looking at buying my son an unlimited data, Sprint phone. Unlimited 4G streaming, on your phone, that can be hooked up to a tv, where ever you are. They say it is $60.00 per month for unlimited data streaming. With an iphone forever, a new phone every time Apple updates, at $19.00 per month, plus insurance, plus taxes, I think it is about $120.00 per month. So for about $140.00 per month, we can stream Netflix at our ranch, campgrounds, snowmobile parks, home, or where ever we are. Compared to $200.00 per month that my neighbor downstairs pays for Dish alone. This is beyond belief. Plus my son gets cell phone service. I do not know how the cable and satellite entertainment companies are going to stay in business. I thought I might up grade to Sprint also but I only steam with my kids, my preference is Christian interface on the internet, so it seems not worth the money.

We love Netflix!
 
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We'd most likely never fight over the remote unless you hate old movies.
I don't binge TV. I like restaurant, real estate shows. Love Wicked Tuna and of course sports and history. I love shows that explore other countries.
 
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Other than Once Upon a Time, there is pretty much no good shows on t.v.
My family doesn't have cable or satellite so we mostly watch DVDs and Netflix.
I haven't ever binge watched any shows. I would love to have the time to binge watch some shows. There are so many great shows to watch. Probably the worse I have done is watch three in a row of the same show.
 
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