![]() The world record for binge-watching, set by Brooklynite Alejandro “AJ” Fragoso in 2016, is 94 hours (with sanctioned bathroom breaks) – his back-to-back episodes included Curb Your Enthusiasm, Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica and, by the end, the attending physician had observed a raised heart rate and acute hallucinations. ![]() Why should the audience be denied what we want? ![]() Reaching the credits of an episode and watching the autoplay function kick in, so that the next instalment is mere seconds away, instils a delicious moment of anticipation. Watching one episode after another, until we’re either satiated or the well runs dry, frees the viewer from decades of constraint that stretch right back to the 1950s, when the weekly episode formed a standard that eventually became stifling. Craig Mathieson presents the case for binge-watchingīinge-watching a television show is an act of liberation.
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