Sunday 8 February 2015

About the pleasures of binge-watching

You guys, third season of House of Cards is coming! On February 27! Don’t you just love Netflix sometimes? When they did it last year with the whole 2. season release on Valentine’s Day, it was rather unprecedented. They didn’t make you wait week after week just for one mere hour of the story. We got 13 episodes of cunning Frank Underwood in the Washington setting at once. Well, the Netflix is doing it again!

Who doesn’t like to watch more than one episode of his or hers favourite series in one sitting? Apparently it’s a neurological thing, you immerse yourself more in the story and connect with the characters on a deeper level and your brain reacts in a certain way, the state that you want to maintain, hence you watch one more episode.

Of course one can’t forget about that it’s all connected with the desire to control our time. We can decide when and how much of something we want to watch. A lot of people prefer to wait out until there are couple of episodes or the whole season to enjoy it more in one day. Apparently, subconsciously we want to avoid feeling insecure, experiencing this particular psychological discomfort that the TV series are created to induce in us. 

Anyways, here you can see the trailer for the third season of House of Cards:




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