David B Morris
2 min readMay 28, 2024

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I appreciate your nuanced reaction to streaming though I have to admit its been the opposite of mine. It's not just that I don't believe in binge watching, it's that I've believed for a long time to drop an entire series all at once was not a sustainable business model.

You may be aware that in the last few years we have learned not only that Netflx was lying about the number of viewers for every show but that the service itself was experiencing huge losses. Neither came as a shock to me. For all you can say about binge-watching as a VIEWING experience, there was always going to come a point when it was never going to be a sustainable model for any service to work with.

To be clear, I have a detached view point from this. Not only do I almost never watch a series all at one, I never watch it when it originally drops. It can be weeks or even months before I get to a series. That said, I've come over time to prefer the method that services such as say, Max and Hulu have used when it comes to dropping their series in a gradual manner. I've found it has always been the best way for me to enjoy my programs because it keeps me wanting more. I felt that way with such brilliant series as Hacks and Reservation Dogs. You are entitiled to your opinion and I respect it. But I still believe that a delayed release method is best not only for most viewers but for the health of TV as a medium. Nothing's to stop you from binge-watching an entire series after every episode has finished droppping. I've always believed that the best way to enjoy TV is delayed gratification rather than drowning all at once. I may be in a minority but I will stick with this position no matter what.

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David B Morris
David B Morris

Written by David B Morris

After years of laboring for love in my blog on TV, I have decided to expand my horizons by blogging about my great love to a new and hopefully wider field.

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