There is a reason GOT and Breaking Bad are praised as the greats while also very good Prime/Netflix shows don't get the same mindshare.
The discussion from week to week or inbetween seasons made these shows way more fun than a whole season dumb. I'm all for this
Indeed. I love to binge, but watching week to week and being able to talk about it with people certainly adds something you just can't get if you binge it all in 2 days, it also helps spread the show far wider than binging will ever do.
Weekly
"OMG did you see x last night"
"no but I'm watching tonight, cant wait"
Next day
"So..."
"zomg it was amaze, I must talk to everyone about it at work and on the socials"
Binge
"Have you seen Y yet, we watched it all this weekend"
"no its on the list, I'm working through x still"
some time later
"So I finally watched Y"
"dude that was months ago, I can remember key points, but not minutaie from each episode"
My issue in this day and age however is that with for example just Era, a thread might have 50 regulars in it and some of them will go to other places to discuss it too, so get exposed to other theories and speculation with people diving into imdb to discover who people are or forming bang on the nose theories that will invariably make it into the Era thread. Sometimes, you don't want to know (for example) what R+L=J means, but you end up finding out quite by accident. That goes the same for other shows too. It happened with Star Trek Discovery with people working out the truth about one character from an IMDB listing. The show makes you wonder, maybe suspect, but when you KNOW becase you read in a thread that the actor was confirmed already, it takes a little of the shine off it.
It's a difficult one to navigate sometimes.
