If it’s a well crafted dramatic series, I prefer binge watching. If it’s a sitcom like Modern Family, there’s no point to that for me since they’re pretty much stand alone episodes.
But I really got into Babylon Five when they started daily reruns so instead of having to wait a week between shows, it was only a day. For me, that’s about the right speed for binging.
But I also remember when after the first year of 24, they reran the entire season in 24 consecutive episodes, that’s when I got hooked on it.
I hadn’t been watching all season long because I thought the whole real-time structure was way too gimmicky. I thought a show that had to resort to something like that probably wasn’t worth it.
But I found out that sometimes a show is more quality than it’s original gimmick. So after watching that first 24 hour season rerun, I was hooked.
One of these days I’ll binge watch all the seasons of Breaking Bad just so I can catch all the little intricacies I missed the first time around when I just watched week to week.
I have almost two full season of Elementary stored up on my DVR and will probably start a binge of 2–3 episodes per day soon.