I can easily watch an entire series in a single day two days ten hours of television a day and I didn't even like [Music] bingeing started by accident Netflix has realized that loads of people were gravitating towards washing shows and bulk you know B that shows that you've seen before friends Seinfeld Law & Order er that's the surprise about it it's led by the consumer the way that Netflix tries to nudge you to watch more it's very subtle little tricks they work out very quickly when a show launches which fund I was working why also
in there getting to the very end of an episode and immediately the credits they minimize it went to the spur corner off the screen straightaway and automatically load for next episode that's how you sometimes get sucked into watching a show for all three hours without even noticing I have found that people are deeply embarrassed by how much they watch TV deeply embarrassed to not be productive and take time off and say actually I watched six hours of television today because I needed to not look at five different tabs on a work computer I just needed
to we also binge to be part of the public conversation [Music] yeah lovely bag so I think there is an anxiety about being caught up about this content which is forcing people to binge more also when we can identify with a character it leads to the release of the love hormone oxytocin it creates a bond we have had such a wonderful morning a series like big little lies which allows you to look at the same event through the eyes of very different characters you're bound to be able to find a character that you can relate
to and go on the journey with if you ever touch my little girl like that again you're gonna end it okay if we're making time to watch a series end to end we are potentially creating hours of space to work with our emotions our relationships [Music] I have probably watched television with over 700 people and so I've experienced a lot of people having big emotions no it's fun anymore whatever happened to fun the episode splats of Sex in the City which is the one where Kirsten Johnson falls out of a window causes people a lot
of emotions because it's an episode about moving on from something [Music] I want to go to Paris [Music] our brains don't discriminate between real activation and activation due to imagined events binge watching means that you're activating yourself to a high degree for much longer periods of time that's going to take longer for you to come down from that episode for Game of Thrones where missandei is headed a much beloved character it's a very graphic death will have triggered the sympathetic nervous system wouldn't be conducive to a good night's sleep what makes Netflix stand out so
well there's a fact that they're able to really experiment with the number of characters that are in the number of story arcs Netflix knows that you're never gonna wash your show midway through you're never gonna start in the middle you're always gonna start from the very beginning so that's we've got Oasis for new black which has a cast of about 40 so you know you're able to have that level of depth over an eight hour series then what you would normally do if it was separated into eight 60-minute chunk and shoved on on a linear
broadcast channel binging is is a word that is has very negative connotations to it right binging is to shovel yourself we don't say I finished a book but the reality is that some of the greatest writers of our generation are writing television I would be the last person to say stop binge watching [Music] thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and click the bail to receive notifications for new videos see you again soon
