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Marathon Viewing

Tonight my wife and I are getting caught up on our So You Think You Can Dance viewing, for which we're several weeks behind. It did get me thinking, though, how many television shows I have a tendency to watch this way. Rather than tuning in every week and watching one episode every seven days, I tend to set my DVR to record a bunch of stuff and then I'll get caught up during a binge-watching session over the course of a weekend. There are very few shows that I watch as they air each week, and I almost always save up serialized shows (the aggravating ones that end on a cliffhanger every week) so that I can have the next episode at the ready once the last episode has left me hanging.

I used to watch HBO shows like this all the time; back when we didn't get premium channels in our cable package, it was because I actually couldn't watch them until they became available on Netflix, Amazon Instant, or DVD boxed set. But even now that we have those channels available, I still like to save up my watching of House of Lies or Game of Thrones until I can see them all in quick succession.

Does anyone else do this, or are most people still on the "I have to watch it every week" schedule?