The End of the F****** World
What a joy to watch something that was nothing like what you expected... in a good way!
The End of the F****** World World was a wonderful series to dive into, as it was easy to consume and the content wasn't as lengthy as some other of the shows, which is very appealing to me.
Personally, binge watching is not my favorite form of media consumption, because the information gets jumbled in my brain and sometimes I cant even synthesize the information, or truly understand the intricacies of what is happening in the show. I much rather watch one episode a day for the duration of the series, but I definitely never mix series, meaning I will watch one series at a time, not many different episodes from different series in the same time frame.
On the topic of binge watching, long form television, is an identifying quality of our time. With the phase out of common cable broadcasting, and the onset of Netflix, and all its subsequent streaming services, we have started leaning towards consuming TV at hyper speed by playing 13 episodes in a row and never getting up once to do anything other than that. Before, when broadcast television was the sitch, shows were mostly made with definitive moments for commercial interruption, so more often than not, some kind of resolution would be made before the commercial break, to not just go off without any explanation, and then a new issue would arise when the commercial break was over. Now, streaming shows don't have to account for that kind of thing, as people often roll from one episode onto the next, with no commercial breaks or any breaks at all. Specially in a series like The End of the F****** World, where the episodes are so short you really could roll through all of them in one day and not even notice. The experience is also shaped by the platform its on. By that I mean, that the viewer is encouraged and almost expected to continue to watch as each episode ends and theres a tiny timer that tells you the next episode will play in 10 seconds. Thats about as big a commercial break as you're gonna get when streaming, and you can even skip those measly second by clicking the keep watching button, almost as if we have been taught by the platform how to watch tv in our day and age. In the same manner the platform shapes our experience in that it allows us to choose the order in which we watch content. Before, on TV you'd have to watch one episode and wait an entire week or more to watch the next, and thus within that week you might have watched many episodes of different series, shows, etc, and have to keep the storylines straight in your mind until next week. Now, on streaming platforms you can choose to watch many things at once, or you can stick to one thing and get through it before going onto the next. This shapes how we intake the information and retain it. In the same manner you can mix and match between movies and shows at any time you please, something that seems mundane to us now but wouldn't have been in the past. Matter of fact, now a days some long form television crosses between normal length and movie length and no one bats an eye.
The End of the F****** World World was a wonderful series to dive into, as it was easy to consume and the content wasn't as lengthy as some other of the shows, which is very appealing to me.
Personally, binge watching is not my favorite form of media consumption, because the information gets jumbled in my brain and sometimes I cant even synthesize the information, or truly understand the intricacies of what is happening in the show. I much rather watch one episode a day for the duration of the series, but I definitely never mix series, meaning I will watch one series at a time, not many different episodes from different series in the same time frame.
On the topic of binge watching, long form television, is an identifying quality of our time. With the phase out of common cable broadcasting, and the onset of Netflix, and all its subsequent streaming services, we have started leaning towards consuming TV at hyper speed by playing 13 episodes in a row and never getting up once to do anything other than that. Before, when broadcast television was the sitch, shows were mostly made with definitive moments for commercial interruption, so more often than not, some kind of resolution would be made before the commercial break, to not just go off without any explanation, and then a new issue would arise when the commercial break was over. Now, streaming shows don't have to account for that kind of thing, as people often roll from one episode onto the next, with no commercial breaks or any breaks at all. Specially in a series like The End of the F****** World, where the episodes are so short you really could roll through all of them in one day and not even notice. The experience is also shaped by the platform its on. By that I mean, that the viewer is encouraged and almost expected to continue to watch as each episode ends and theres a tiny timer that tells you the next episode will play in 10 seconds. Thats about as big a commercial break as you're gonna get when streaming, and you can even skip those measly second by clicking the keep watching button, almost as if we have been taught by the platform how to watch tv in our day and age. In the same manner the platform shapes our experience in that it allows us to choose the order in which we watch content. Before, on TV you'd have to watch one episode and wait an entire week or more to watch the next, and thus within that week you might have watched many episodes of different series, shows, etc, and have to keep the storylines straight in your mind until next week. Now, on streaming platforms you can choose to watch many things at once, or you can stick to one thing and get through it before going onto the next. This shapes how we intake the information and retain it. In the same manner you can mix and match between movies and shows at any time you please, something that seems mundane to us now but wouldn't have been in the past. Matter of fact, now a days some long form television crosses between normal length and movie length and no one bats an eye.
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