I just realized the two seasons are exactly 1 year apart. I prefer an episode a week, and the option to binge if I dvr the episodes. A year is too long. I like how TMC does the Walking Dead. Mid-season break, then come back. Is this due to budget? 10 a year is not a lot. I'm on episode 8 of season 2 and it's gonna suck to have to wait another year for season 3.
shareAre you saying that The Walking Dead has more than one season per year?
What is it about all EP's being released at once that means you need to binge watch it? You can stretch it out to any length you want.
For a show like this, I generally watch 2 EPs a night. I don't have to watch it every night, but that frequence means that I watch the entire season in 5 days. To me, it's a much more immersive experience than watching it episode by episode over a ~6 month period.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
You aren't forced to binge watch them, you can watch them at any time, at any interval, at any pace.
shareI did not watch GOT (no HBO) until the fourth season started so I binged the first three and the rest of the seasons watched as they were released. I know from this experience that I enjoy binge watching much more. Everything was easier to follow and remember. My total immersion in the series made me appreciate the whole of it a great deal more than hourly doses, once per week. I even toyed with the idea of letting the season finish without viewing so I could binge but found I just couldn't, GOT is just too good!
shareNo, I prefer not being able to watch whenever I want, and having to time my life around the showing time. Doesn't everybody?
shareI watched Season 2 over three straight days. It was easier for me to remember what happened in the previous episode.
As for what to do in between, I watched Season 1 again before starting Season 2.
I always binge-watch, even when seasons aren't released in their entirety on "premiere day". When a series begins I wait for it to end, then watch it straight through. This does mean I'm having to wait nearly a full year in between seasons, and I'm actually needing to re-watch some (or all) of the previous season to remind myself where the story left off, but I don't mind.
Also, it irritates me when shows have a mid-season break that lasts several months — as, for example, The Walking Dead does. That is way too long of a "break in the action" for me... and another reason why I'd rather binge-watch shows in their entirety after seasons end.
What I miss most about "old tv" is the length of the seasons. For most prime-time soaps that aired in the early 1980s (ie: Dallas and Dynasty, to name a few), their average seasons consisted of 25-33 episodes that aired from September through May, pretty much straight through, with not more than a 2-week break for the December holidays. The stories were compelling and surprisingly addictive, in that they held your interest and kept you coming back, week after week, for half a year or more. These weren't "flash in the pan" shows either. Many of them were tv staples for more than a decade. Nowadays, producing a weekly tv series seems to cost nearly as much as producing a feature-length film, and there are hundreds of other channels with dozens of other shows to compete with... and so, 8-10 episodes per season has been steadily becoming the norm rather than the exception. For me, that's unfortunate. It's extremely frustrating when a good series ends at the point where I was really getting into it.