Watch too much of any tv series

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Scenario.

You find a series that is practically fully available, whether its all online or purchasable etc. Or you may watch some online and then buy the rest.

Anyway, so you have the series at your fingertip. Say 30-40 parts @40 mins each (20-26 hours)

Will you devour this at the speed of light?
ie. If you have 8 hours spare a day, will you chain the episodes, perhaps forgetting things like eating, drinking, ie just stuck there, but aware that you are devouring the episodes.

is this just plain old lack of self discipline, or........your opinions please...

I kind of like it!

Now, what I am learning, is to give myself permission to casually quit in the middle of an episode

I recently got hooked on old episodes of Home and Away on YouTube. I've watched them from the original pilot up to episode 157 and am anxiously awaiting more.

I was like that about The Dukes of Hazzard, many years, ago when I was in my single digits.

I consciously set aside time and food and told my then-boyfriend to not feel like I was deliberately ignoring him when "Star Trek (Any incarnation) would have a marathon on TV. That was mid-90's.

If my dog didn't need to fed and pottied every so often, I can sooo see myself literally forgetting to eat, bathe, take my medicine and relying on hunger pangs to tell me to eat something. Although I've been known to ignore the hunger pangs also.

Oh yes, I totally do this. I don't take to new TV shows much, so when I find a new one that I like I tend to dive into it and digest it way too fast. Sometimes I'll get through a few seasons in a few days, depending on how long episodes are.

I have the same experience as astaut. Sometimes it takes me a while to find a show I like. Once I find a new (or old) show I like, I'll take it all in quickly.

Some of which have been:
Andromeda
Bones
Dead Like Me

I just spent most of a week watching all 5 seasons of Weeds. And the 2 days before that was spent watching the 2nd season of True Blood.
I've tried to do it with the recent Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5, but I just couldn't do it.
I have also done a few anime series as straight shots.

<Raises hand> I've been devouring whole series now for quite some time. I went through Stargate SG-1 in 2-3 months (every season on Hulu, several hours a day . . . was during my 2 year unemployment). Still doing it now with various other shows, anime included. Like a damn addiction at times and if i start a series, gotta . . . finish . . . <crawls>

Yes.

Currently doing my annual The Wire marathon. Just about to start season 4. Best TV show created.

Yah i usualy end up watching crime things such as Cold Case, or paranormal stuff like Ghost Hunters, but i think thats only because i like Crime 'n Ghosts

I tend to watch the same films over and over again. I once watched an entire series of star trek voyager in about 3 days. I think it is because it is a predictable way of spending time. But not down to self discipline.

I go true phases. When I decide I want to watch a series; I plan on watching it till I finish it but I sometimes get board/distracted/burnt-out after a few eps. I take a break & I don't get around to finishing it cuz I'm kind of burnt-out or want to do something else ect. Other times I may watch the whole thing. It varies

That is generally how I watch tv these days. It's also how I re-watch shows. I recently rewatched Six Feet Under in 5 or 6 days. It must be around 60 hours long because all the episodes are close to an hour, so you do the math on how many hours I have free in a day . It's all I was doing every day, watching that while I crocheted. Good times.

The devouring of shows started when I discovered British television. I've been catching up on all the great shows I missed out on. I've seen so many now, it's kind of ridiculous. Still have tons of them lined up though, having trouble deciding what should be next.

It's irritating when I devour a show that is still airing. Like when I started watching the new Doctor Who, it was airing the 4th series, so I got all caught up really quickly and by that time it was time for the specials so I was having to wait months at a time for new episodes. It felt like withdrawal. I used some of the time to catch up on Torchwood, but that didn't take long and then I had to wait for that also, so it was like double withdrawal.

I remember when I had a cold or something and I was in bed for a day or so.
I watched about 14 eps of sg-1( ones that I liked the sound of) in a rather consecutive fashion.
It's all or nothing, there is no regulator, this is like dysfunctional executive functioning related to adhd or is it asd or is it:

"IT does not matter what anyone does as long as no-one gets hurt and if you don't have much to do, or a lack of relationship, or you can't be bothered to tidy your room, so what and each to their own!!" DISORDER? ( I could detail that disorder more, but I'm sure it makes enough of a point)