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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 14 2020, @06:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-one-more-episode...and-then-the-sun-comes-up dept.

The increasing popularity of global media content like American TV series has been considered as one notable factor associated with binge-watching practices, or continuously consuming media content in a single session.

With the massive global expansion of streaming platforms like Netflix—which had more than 154 million subscribers in over 190 countries in 2019—this practice of marathon viewing of televised content has gradually become a "new ritual" for many viewers.

But not without a price.

Indeed, an American Academy of Sleep Medicine survey in 2019 found 88% of American adults reported a lack of sleep due to binge-watching television and streaming series.

As the use of online streaming services to consume televised content is becoming more common globally, the problem of binge-watching behavior may also become a global phenomenon.

[...] It is inevitable that binge-watching has become a new normal among today's audiences. Yet, given the negative health ramifications associated with it, can we move beyond that? We could try savoring one episode at one time in a slow watching practice.


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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday February 14 2020, @07:52PM (2 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday February 14 2020, @07:52PM (#958270) Journal
    I didn't think they had a plot. Or acting. Binge watch 3 of them and it's just one big Groundhog Day.
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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 14 2020, @08:02PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2020, @08:02PM (#958278) Journal

    It may not be much of a plot. But it's a plot.

    Poor suffering hero (or plain ol' ordinary guy) treated badly by evil bully(ies). After great injustice, he turns into super conquering hero and beats up all the bad guys with the violence of an evil bully. And gets the girl. Everyone lives happily ever after.

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 14 2020, @08:26PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday February 14 2020, @08:26PM (#958293) Journal

      Cerebral movies are great, but linear plots can work, too. Taken and John Wick don't leave you guessing but are viscerally satisfying stretches of ass-kickery. One of my favorite sequences in film was in Unforgiven when William Munny stands against a backdrop of an approaching storm while he learns how the town sheriff murdered his friend, which makes him flip out and kill every dickhead in the town.

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