Merry Christmas! I have enjoyed my Christmas holiday and something that has made it particularly fun is the fact that I have been binge watching "The Walking Dead". I'm currently more than halfway through the 3rd season and enjoying the show immensely I should state.
Let me just say, thank God for Netflix and the ability to binge watch shows. Binge watching in my opinion is the only acceptable way to watch television now a days. The reason why is that it makes watching television similar to the entertainment factor of reading a book...
When you read a book (which I also enjoy doing by the way), if there is a cliffhanger at the end of a chapter you just flip the page and find out what happened to your protagonist. If you're binge watching a show you just turn on the next episode. Similarly, if you are in the middle of a particularly boring story arc you can skip forward a couple of episodes until the story picks back up much like you would skip forward a couple chapters in a book.
Personally I hate cliffhangers and waiting until the next week to find out what's going to happen on my favorite show. I'd rather see it all at once and watch on my own terms. This is why I will continue to support Netflix original programming like "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black". I like that they release an entire season at once. I also feel like releasing shows in this manner makes them more conducive for better storytelling as it forces the writers to plot out the story arc for the season in advance as opposed to writing as you go which seems to happen on most network tv shows.
Gotta go now and find out what's happening with Rick and crew...
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