Would You Go Back to Weekly Series Releases or You Like to Binge?

hasher22 on 11/10/2021 - 00:24
Last edited 11/10/2021 - 00:29

Hey guys,

Just got into a conversation with a mate regarding how TV series are commonly now releasing in whole seasons.

Since What If is now finished with season 1, I miss and loved the fact that it was released weekly and it gives me something to look forward to and raise theories with friends.

I finished Squid Game over 3 days, The witcher in approx 4 days, final space season 3: 2 days, Titans S1 in 4 days….. As I am not forced to wait.

My Speculation: If Squid Game did release weekly, will it have the same mega global fandom and fame? Will it be just as popular? Never know. I am sure entertainment experts have calculated the risk of weekly vs releasing whole seasons

What do you prefer? Or would you like to see a comeback of weekly releases? Personally, I like weekly releases

Poll Options

  • 19
    Yes, I want weekly release of the series
  • 75
    No, I like to binge a whole season
  • 5
    Maybe, I like to watch a few eps at a time
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Comments

  • SmiTTy on 11/10/2021 - 00:30
    +7

    Definitely binge, or at least knowing that I have the option to, and to be able to watch it "on demand"

    There are shows that I deliberately wait until they are all out before I start the next season. Shows like money heist just annoy me that it ends on such a cliff hanger every episode. I endured similar with GoT!

  • Unorthodox on 11/10/2021 - 00:43
    +4

    Personal watching - binge
    Social watching - weekly

    I do enjoy reading the discussion threads per episode and/or discussing each episode with friends and colleagues if its a shared interest. Weekly definitely helps add a social aspect to it as everyone is at the same point.

  • Stewardo on 11/10/2021 - 01:10
    +2

    I’d go back to 1970s VHF if I could, with no internet at all. People under 30 will never get to experience that.

      • Stewardo on 11/10/2021 - 01:23

        Ha! This is the 90s and VHS not VHF.

        • hasher22 on 11/10/2021 - 01:32

          OH hahahhaha I read that as VHS hahahaaha, then I read people under 30 and im like….. VHS car rewinder! hahaha. TBH I dont know what VHF is without googling it

          • Stewardo on 11/10/2021 - 01:42

            @hasher22: See in the 70s you had to know things, asked someone or gone to the library. No google, if you missed an episode of the Rockford files you’d have to wait for a rerun. Sounds pretty lame I know.

            • spackbace on 11/10/2021 - 01:47

              @Stewardo:

              Sounds pretty lame I know.

              Ok bo… 😂

              Every generation is different. You didn't have the luxury of graphics calculators, we did, so we learnt other skills instead. Today's school kids have so much technology already there, so hopefully they learn new stuff that we never had room in our brains for back then

              • Stewardo on 11/10/2021 - 02:14

                @spackbace: No doubt. But does instant access to everything, not have some downsides?
                and how would you measure that if you’d never experienced it. I guess every generation will say “back in my day” etc. but the digital world for all its amazing possibilities, has a lot of downside, someone born into it would just accept it as part of life.

                • Nugs on 11/10/2021 - 08:01

                  @Stewardo: yep, I had a stack of VHS tapes, and I would record the whole season before starting to watch them. shows like Sopranos that was on late and had very few spoiler ads were easy to stockpile and binge
                  .

  • p1 ama on 11/10/2021 - 02:14

    Definitely binge. With weekly releases, I can barely remember what happened in the previous episode when it comes time to watch the following episode.

    However, all in all, it depends on what kind of series it is. If it's a tightly knit story, e.g. a 10 episode series, then I would always binge and would be highly annoyed with a weekly release. I do think that certain long-running series can make a weekly release schedule work, but that has to be built into the nature of the series and the way it is written for it to work, e.g. Big Bang Theory - where the episodes are not one long-running storyline, but are each individually their own sub-plot.

  • Danstar on 11/10/2021 - 07:13
    +2

    I avoid watching a show until the whole season comes out.

    • extract on 11/10/2021 - 09:28

      I take it a level further and don't watch a show till the whole series is complete.

      • Danstar on 11/10/2021 - 09:42

        Yeah. I say that too, but it’s hard to do with shows I’ve already invested in and I got nothing else to watch/can’t be bothered starting a new show

  • try2bhelpful on 11/10/2021 - 07:45

    I much prefer to Binge watch. However, it does leave you with “what next?” when you finish a series.

  • avoidfullprice on 11/10/2021 - 08:08

    Binge. More cost effective under monthly subscription model.

    Don't really care about weekly discussion/speculation from fan. GoT ruined that experience.

    • ESEMCE on 11/10/2021 - 09:49

      It feels like they're moving back to weekly releases for this exact reason.
      If they drop a whole season in one go, people can watch in 1 month, versus paying for 2 or 3 months with weekly drops.

      As above I'd prefer a Season drop, but I think now that the streaming market is now so diluted and competitive that weekly drops are a necessity to retain subscribers.

      • avoidfullprice on 11/10/2021 - 12:09

        Id still prefer binge. Happy to wait for the show to have a few more episodes left before I resubscribe.

  • 87percent on 11/10/2021 - 09:49

    1-2 eps a week is fine for me

  • [Deactivated] on 11/10/2021 - 09:59

    I prefer to watch the entire thing at once. The only difficulty that presents is avoiding spoilers while waiting for weekly shows to complete. YouTube reads your Google searches, so you sometimes get bombarded with spoilers if you're not careful about incognito searches and purging your watch history.

    • [Deactivated] on 11/10/2021 - 10:10

      just use duckduckgo, problem solved

  • Stopback on 11/10/2021 - 10:00

    Social watching - as in reddit - much better weekly - also more time to digest shows - understand the show

  • KaTst3R on 11/10/2021 - 13:19

    Some Netflix series are still released on a weekly basis. I used to be more patient but now everyone just want content delivered/released immediately. NOW NOW NOW…everything NOW. Prime NOW !

  • aragornelessar on 12/10/2021 - 19:46

    I take it you never watched Naruto with a gazillion filler eps in between the action and the end of every episode being one part of the fight. I'd stockpile eps so that I could ensure I didn't spend 20mins watching him doing a sexy jutsu only to be clobbered and need to wait another week for him to finish the accompanying flashback

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