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Lady at my dentist's office said she watched 4 episodes of The Bear in one sitting, and it changed how I pick shows now
I was sitting in the waiting room on Tuesday with a sore tooth, and the woman next to me started chatting about how she binged four episodes of The Bear in one night. She said she kept telling herself "just one more" and then it was 2am. What stuck with me was her rule: she only starts a show if she can watch at least 3 episodes in a row without the story feeling slow. I tried that rule with a police drama everyone kept pushing on me, and I quit after episode 2 because each one felt like a rerun of the one before it. Then I tried it with a British comedy my cousin kept nagging me about, and I blew through half the season on a Sunday. The difference was obvious, one show gave me a reason to keep going after each episode ended. Now I look for shows that end episodes on a cliffhanger instead of a tidy bow. Does anyone else have a test they run before committing to a new show, or do you just go by gut feel?
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harper_wright8h ago
Started doing the two episode test after wasting weeks on slow shows.
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