I think a fair argument can be made either way, but offering an entire season or a relatively complete batch of episodes at a time is the superior option for a streaming platform. It’s the only option that allows either side to have what they want with favor shown to those who want it all upfront. Those who want the…

I’ve never seen anyone so mad about something so mundane.

Yeah, but you loose the CoNvErSaTiOn!! :D

This. Weekly only benefits people making money off this, not the regular viewer. And I guess giant babies who don’t know how to limit their viewing to one a week if they really want.

Can’t you just control how many episodes you watch?

Good. Weekly episodes is a shitty holdover from network television that needs to die on streaming platforms. It benefits exactly no one but YouTubers and bloggers. Hell, I rarely even watch more than two or three episodes at a time of any new season or series, but still bristle at the thought of something like BoJack…

Imagine placing import on the social media conversation’s endurance, as a consumer. I get why providers want that, as a metric to support their job security and career, but as a consumer? You’re doing their job for free. 

I was already married with children, had a career and a mortgage by the time binge watching became a thing so I never embraced it. I’m fine with a show a week.

The whole point of streaming is having options.

I think one of the best things about paying for a streaming servicea used to be that you got full seasons of shows to watch however you saw fit. I don’t binge watch a lot because of time constraints, but I enjoyed the fact that I could move on to episode 2 right away if I found episode 1 compelling.

The part of the “cultural conversation” argument that bothers me is it feeds into the problem of every episode having to leave you with some big question or cliffhanger or easter egg for people to Google. I love that the binge model lets episodes actually just be self-contained and rewatchable, not having to chase…

This thread is small-sample-sized proof of my theory that people will complain, no matter what the release schedule is.

Good!  I like binging it all at once.

Yeesh. I dunno what is worse... the 40 month sentence for a poor paying sales job, or the judge actually comparing his case with Washington Mutual and the subprime collapse... as if he’s making any dent in rich assholes and bankrupt late stage capitalism by sending sales people from a piracy company to jail.

But even if you do look at Mr. Bowser’s gain, the $320,000 over the course of seven years, it did provide a very comfortable lifestyle. That equates to about $3,800 a month

Man.... You guys ever seen anything sadder than that judge trying to make up for being ineffectual on the face of massive crimes by coming down hard on a random weeb?

Right? I was immediately thinking of the 2008 crash and fallout, where banks and their employees committed a staggering number of outright crimes, particularly fraud and dishonesty. I know a couple who lost their house (which didn't even get sold, they were just kicked out and had to watch whilst it slowly rotted) beca…

Haven’t you read any of shotmyheartandiwishiwasntok’s comments? This wasn’t just some schlub, he was SELLING ROMS.

Nintendo really knows how to make it feel so fucking good to steal from Nintendo.

And thus, our population is safe again! God Bless America!