Why We Binge-Watch Our Favorite Shows And How It Impacts Us
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Opinion

Why We Binge-Watch Our Favorite Shows And How It Impacts Us

J.D. Wills

Earlier this year, Apple TV released Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis as an American college football coach who is hired to run a professional soccer team in England. Unfortunately, Lasso doesn’t know the first thing about soccer. Having spent the last year living in the UK, my wife and I felt more than prepared to immediately start watching, being all too familiar with the “football” faux-pas which Lasso was about to experience. The show seemed like nothing but fun. And it was, at first.

After watching the first three episodes in quick succession, the fourth episode didn’t appear on the screen during the credits. Thinking our TV was broken, we restarted the system, only to come back to the menu and see — in a terrifying, tiny font — “Episode 4 Releasing in 7 Days.”

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