Recently, 3 days ago, as of when I'm writing this in fact! a new season of a captivating sci-fi online television series "Stranger Things" has come out.

Approximately a day after the season set foot on Netflix, a bunch of people had already finished the entire season. I found that strange (...*wink*) and it got me thinking about binge-watching in general, not specific to any show in particular.

I'm not a binge watcher, and would very much like to know why and how, as well as give my 11 cents (get it, because of "Stranger Things" and inflation!) on the matter.

I'm not interested in where do people get the time to watch an entire season in what seems like two days, but rather in how it feels. My approach to watching any show is one of a student taking a century to walk to the bathroom during the class. While the days may go by shortly and there are many things that have a lifespan too curt (like Ice Cream, spring break; or that relationship you with the best girl on campus, ahem Chad) I think it's very important to make things last.

TV shows are no exception- by watching more than two to three episodes a day, a viewer compresses way too much information and doesn't let the plot and the characters settle in. Film and television are a form of art, and art is meant to be appreciated, not consumed.

Otherwise, a perfectly good show becomes like popcorn in cinema- gone too soon. I don't see how stacking a myriad of episodes is appreciative of a show. Most shows have episodes that last somewhere in the ballpark of 50 minutes, so watching 5 times that number seems mind-numbing.

I think a great part about having a show last long, say watching an episode at the end of each day for a month or so, is that in a way this show becomes a part of a specific period of time, as opposed to a brief affair. I was one of the few people who were very late to the whole Harry Potter films hype, and watched all 8 films over a week and a half or so, and that made the movies so much more memorable, and always reminded me of the week in late spring when I watched them. It was, I think, a very nice way to make a film fit in with the rest of my life, and it simply would have not had the same effect had I some kind of a Harry Potter marathon.

I truly don't hope to come off as someone pretentious (I'm not from San Francisco, so I think I'm safe) but I truly am curious. But for now, my stance is thatthe best things in a rather brief world should be made last for a while.