The Binge Culture

On 19 May 2019, Game of Thrones closed off its season 8 , which will be its last season with a whopping 19.8 million views on HBO, making it arguably one of the biggest shows of the planet and still to this day people seem gloomy of not being able to find another binge watchable TV series and don't get me wrong or get this twisted, TV shows have always been big Seinfeld, Friends just to name a few, but the term Binging is relatively new and it is widely related to the current landscape of TV.
For a long time TV series episodes drop week by week and it was the channel that decided when to air them ,so, lets say almost 10 years back, 'the big bang theory' is on every Sunday, you get hyped do all your work by Sunday night and cozy in to catch the latest episode and after it is over, you feel very sad and then you patiently wait for the next week, then you check out what else is being on TV to see if there's something you'd like and then after sometime hit the sack.
Ten years later, as all of its contemporary industries, the TV and entertainment business also underwent severe disruption, we are now at a point were TV programming is almost obsolete, surely in no time, the TV will programming will face the extinction the radio faced, this is all thanks to something the cultural shift simply termed Binging. We as of now are thriving on stimulation and dopamine shots, instantaneous messaging, constant scrolling, and the unstoppable typing and being glued to the screen for a lion share of the day, we live for the restlessness and nobody cares about the now or the present , and everyone seems to be feeling dull and blank, We have lost the fortitude to be patient, TV series on platforms like Netflix release all their stuff on a single day and its available forever, so, without breaking a sweat we sit through the entire series,we control what we watch. But, is it really so, are we really in control? Binging and this sensation of instant gratification has made us lose all patience, We want everything now and for what, to escape into fiction and to not face reality, is that why? an introspection of how the market tailors to over epicurean tendencies is truly baffling, we may be very close to a day where we don't have to move a finger, but if this culture will be the by-product of it, is it really worth it?