Mourning the end of a binge. Why does this happen? What does that say about someone? It is odd, you must admit. I was bummed when I finished the Ray Donavan binge.
Hill Street must have been a long one.. seemed like it went on forever. You could binge on Law & Order. Like 88 seasons? No need to mourn as you can just restart it and watch like you've never seen it. @sean92008
@THRUST MEATNOZZLE - L&O, NCIS and that other procedural seem impossible! I thought about Breaking Bad but I've watched the final episode a bunch of times. I don't know if I could plod through it now. I like Chris Carter for his taste in music though
Other than the acknowledgement that those days (the 80s) are over, it was an enthralling roller coaster for both St. E & HSB. My fix is gone. Kind of like when a company stops making your favorite addictive substance. There's a withdrawal.
Some shows don't binge well. Continuity, inconsistent backstories or histories, weak writing all can get over-emphasized in the binge. Jack Webb's regular cast of characters showing up in a quarter of the Dragnet/Adam-12/Emergency! shows seems like every day in a binge.
Hill Street and St. Elsewhere, to their credit, kept the history consistent. Something that happened in season one gets referred to in dozens of shows throughout the entire run.
To me, those shows, along with Twilight Zone, X-Files, ST: TNG all can be watched multiple times as they are timeless.
Tougher to binge, but still entertaining is ST: DS9, Barney Miller and Rockford Files. Superstore was nice at times. Because of that, I just saw the pilot for Ugly Betty. America Ferrera is intriguing, but I hate her politics and some of the shit she's done to make USC a less friendly place.
I don't know what my next binge is. If I had a hobby that wasn't painful or depressing, maybe I'd stop the TV for a while.
