No More Episodic Television For Me ...

And by that I mean the old-school week-to-week format.

Why?

I can no longer stand the week-to-week suspense of a TV show "cliffhanger" anymore. No patience. Or if a particular episode is not so good, on a DVD I can jump to the next one and hope for the best. Otherwise, I tend to think after the lame episode I probably have better things to do next [enter day/timeslot here.]

I was one of the weirdoes who waited until Monk Season Eight was out on DVD to watch the entire season and the show finale. Thankfully, even though Chris and the rest of my family had all seen the finale online and on cable the week it aired, they didn't tell me how it ended other than they did like how it wrapped up. (I did too.)

I did the same with Doctor Who. I waited til we'd bought all the episodes THEN I watched them in a crazy weekend-long-plus-great-junkfood marathon. I had discovered with Season Two that watching this way was really the best way for me to get used to the new Doctor -- which I have to admit (both times) I was none too happy with at first. (Totally think he works now!)

Same for Eureka.We borrowed and watched all of season 2 with Netflix then bought Season 3 (on sale, yay!) and watched that in another crazy weekend-long-junkfood-filled marathon. (I'm SO looking forward for the Dr. Who Christmas Special and Eureka Season Four to all be out!!)

I love weekend long DVD/TV marathons.