Okay, this is not meant to be judgmental but i find this particular interaction with a show is precisely what makes a show worth watching. I binge-watch too but a binge-watch can almost never produce the same feelings, emotions and theories I have towards a show as when I only get 1-2 episodes per week and have to wait for the next. It's a completely different interaction with a show - and, in my opinion, it's much more beautiful.
You engage with a show. With its characters, dynamics, plotlines, developments, etc. You think about it during your week, making up theories what could happen next. You engage with characters on a whole different level, trying to make sense out of their past actions and what these mean for the future. You analyze the show's narrative and how it could continue. You interpret hints given by the show that may foreshadow certain storylines or outcomes. You become INVESTED.
And yeah, you get mad. You get mad because somehow you thought the show would go a different direction. You get mad because they f*cked over your fave characters. You get mad because, for heavens sake, the show could have done much more interesting things than what they gave to you. And all of these feelings? They're wonderful, they're what the people behind those shows want to achieve. They want you to get happy, sad or mad. They want you to actually have feelings about the show, to see you engage with it, and voice your thoughts on it. It means you became invested and needed to vent about it somewhere.
Binge-watching is mostly just brainlessly following a storyline. You barely think about the character's motivations, the development of dynamics, nor the continuation of a storyline. You just take what's given. Which is fine, but the critical, analytical, sometimes objective, sometimes subjective engagement with a show that automatically follows when you live-watch a show that makes you feel things and you get to think about parts of a storyline before you continue onto a next one is much more mentally challenging and demanding. It's you having to make up your own theories about characters and plot. Not everyone does that, but some do, and it's beautiful. Because it speaks for the passion someone can have for a show, for the invested emotions and thoughts they put into a show. It is one of the nicest things that derives from watching TV.
Edit: To quote Hugh Laurie, "Seeing people so passionately enthusiastic about, actually about anything, seeing people motivated to that degree, to a sort of pitch of near lunacy is actually terribly moving. Because the big enemy in this world is apathy, people going, ‘meh, I don’t care.’ But these are people who do care, my god they care."
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