Between Netflix, Hulu, On Demand, and countless other outlets available for watching television shows, many grow accustomed to simply flipping to the next available episode once the program they were watching finishes. Rising in popularity is the tendency to start a new series and watch it all as quickly as possible. This "binge-watching" has the obvious downfalls of a loss of productivity, enabling procrastination, etc., but (more importantly) the added problem arises when you finish the episodes available and must switch over to waiting for new episodes.

The rate of watching the show which you've become attached to then slows from an episode an hour or so to one a week. This rate is devastating, especially because it means a forced return to reality, or else starting another show and then having to leave the plot and characters which to you had so recently become attached.

Even worse than waiting a week at a time, is waiting months in between seasons of the show. Some series with less acclaimed followings also have the added fear of the show not being renewed for the next season, leaving the viewers who were waiting in anticipation without closure.

Although these problems are the definition of trivial and "first-world" they exemplify the level of boredom and emotional attachment to fiction which is popular in today's era. This problem is especially magnified now following spring break when many had ample time to start new shows or to catch up on shows they were watching. Now large numbers of students are faced with starting a new show or else being productive while they wait for new episodes. To people everywhere, good luck and have patience for those mindless episodes on the way.