The majority of the most critically acclaimed shows of the past ten years-shows like The Wire, and Mad Men, and Game of Thrones, etc.-are not really structured as weekly, episodic TV shows in the old-fashioned sense: they are a new kind of long-form storytelling in chapters, both made and consumed with an awareness that the show is one long story, not a series of little stories. ![]() Increasingly, television showrunners are taking advantage of the unique possibilities of this changing art form, and truly "episodic" television shows now seem like quaint relics of a bygone era. We're no longer slaves to the weekly TV schedule-and neither are the creators. Technology has finally caught up with this long-form medium, and many of us now prefer to watch entire TV seasons-or even entire TV series-all at once. The advent of TV-on-DVD in the early 2000s started the ball rolling, but it's the revolution of streaming media over the last few years that has changed television forever. We are living in the glorious, golden age of binge-watching. Introduction (or, The Part You Can Skip If You Don't Care Why I'm Doing This) ![]() For a fuller explanation of this project, read on. This is the first in a new series of posts called Binge Watch, in which I catch up on shows I never watched by gorging myself on as many episodes as I can humanly stand.
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