Conclusion As it becomes more culturally permissible, viewers are experimenting with and enjoying binge viewing, on streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Hulu, and HBO, where marathon spectatorship is not only encouraged but is the only consumption mode. The experience of binge-watching offers a completely different perception of time, viewing pleasure and control. Given the continuing evolution of new ways to access television programs and spectators growing dependency on their digital devices as providing them with instant access to media, it seems reasonable to suggest that binge-watching television will be part of people’s vocabulary and viewing practices for years to come. It has fundamentally changed the way television is consumed today. As binge-watching becomes …show more content…
Binge-watching, done for catching-up, reminding oneself of lost pasts, or just wanting to spend one hour (or three, or eight) with one’s new favorite characters, transforms watching television into a new mode of gluttony. And gluttony comes with its desire for new experiences of time, immediate pleasure and gratification, possession and a quench of nostalgic thirst. And as binge-watching is surely becoming one of the main television viewing practices, it (as a mode) should be examined by the study of film phenomenology, for binge-viewers experience watching television in distinctly different ways. This essay scratched only a part of what can be additionally researched in terms of the binge-viewers experiential dispositions toward time, the experience of immediate gratification and pleasure, level of immersion, and the experience of nostalgia when binge-watching television serials. Understanding the nuances of the experience of binge-watching requires a new conceptualization of viewers’ engagement and further research can investigate the level of engagement with the filmic object, in this case binge-watching, and suggest a more complete phenomenological description of the experience of