[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ating, drink, shopping, and now TV. Binging has found its way into our family room. As if Americans weren’t lazy enough, people can spend hours of their lives, days even weeks, dedicated to watching season after season of a TV show. With opponents like Netflix, dvring, the Internet  and my personal choice of On Demand. I frequently partake in this guilty pleasure. In fact, so frequently that pretty much every show I’ve watch I binged on first. For me it’s mostly that I discovered an amazing TV show that’s already a few seasons in. Shows like HBO’s Game of Thrones and True Blood, and Showtime’s Weeds and Shameless are just of a few shows I’ve binged watched, and that’s not even basic cable.

After finally catching up with my shows, the endless torment of waiting week after week to see new episodes can get infuriating, buy eventually the old rhythm of of watching TV sets back in until I find a new show. My time binging usually consists of me waking up, getting some sort of unhealthy food and going straight to my couch.  For the next 10 hours my sole purpose in life would be to watch as many episodes of a show till I got caught up or couldn’t watch anymore, and only getting up for bathroom breaks or getting more food.

Since I have Time Warner cable it gives me the On Demand service, which not always, but sometimes limits how much I could watch. Then the endless option of the internet comes into being. With websites like Hulu and any other websites that lets a person watch TV shows illegally, a person could spend hour on their tablet or laptop. One median of entertainment that has taken an interesting change is Netflix. At first Netflix was mostly for movies and eventually ran Blockbuster out of business. But then Netflix did something to screw their prices and lost a lot of their customers. With the new binging, crazy people are now using their Netflix for watching TV, some watching entire series of TV shows. And Netflix has of course taken notice, by expanding their TV show library and by releasing their own television series called House of Cards. Instead of releasing an episode every week, House of Cards released its entire first season through Netflix and will do the same with future seasons.

So is this the future of television? In the fast world we live in has waiting just a few days for a new episode become too unbearably slow to live with? Only time can tell if this new binge craze is just a fad or here to stay. But with all the options we have in our lives my guess is it’s going to be around for awhile.