I prefer to wait for an entire season to be released and binge watch it in one or two sittings. Most shows only get 10 episodes these days, and they tend to be highly serialized, so there’s less catching up to do / remembering what happened last.
Only drawback is I have to avoid spoilers and can’t do episode discussions until everyone else has already moved on.
Glad you’re able to make that work. I get that and do miss the communal aspect but it’s been a real challenge for me in the streaming era.
I don’t think I’ve really had the communal feeling in recent memory except maybe when Game of Thrones was on its last few seasons, and that was only because I was late to the party and binged the first 4 lol. The rest of the time, it never feels like people around me are watching the same shows. And if we are, we’re all at different points so it’s a minefield of spoilers.
Yeah that’s the big problem with binge style watching with full season releases. It really kills the community and discussion aspect of TV. Otherwise having control of how much to watch & when is great.