You guys! I’ve been watching One the Woman on Viki, and I am absolutely in love with it. It was one of the Kdramas that I had on the Following tab that I hadn’t started yet. I love Honey Lee and Lee Sang Yoon, so I had been really excited for it before it aired, but I got busy with goodness knows what. As of this writing, I’m on Episode 7, and since it’s fully aired, I will most definitely be binge-watching it. But while I was watching, I realized that I had forgotten another reason when I was writing my gratitude post yesterday.
As mentioned above, I am a binge-watcher. If I’m watching by myself, and I usually am, I like to get through a show to have the whole story. Unless I’m doing a watch party, like I was a few weeks ago, or watching a new airing show to discuss with friends, I don’t usually watch an episode or two a week.
Of course, to binge an entire show, I either need to watch a previously aired show or wait until a new show is complete. Which, in the case of One the Woman, is what I did. Note: sometimes I watch new shows on Viki or Netflix and have to wait every week for episodes, but that depends on the show and what’s going on in my life. Otherwise, I exhibit patience and wait so that I can watch the show in its entirety.
I do often wonder if that’s the best way to watch shows. On the one hand, I’m waiting patiently for a show to be completed for several weeks. Okay, that “patience” shouldn’t really be considered patience. Yes, I wait for one or two shows (at a time), but it’s not like I’m deprived of other media. Or offline tasks to fill my time. Such as my day job that pays for my subscription to Viki and Netflix (and a few others). Back to the point though. I usually wait until a show is completed before I stop watching, and yet because of that, I miss out on the conversation, whether offline or online.
If my friends are watching a show or my mutuals on TikTok are watching a show (and it’s not connected to a watch party), then there’s usually a conversation about it. And the consequence of me waiting is that I can’t participate, not entirely, and I rarely attempt to join if I’ve yet to watch the show. So alas, I have to sit back and wait, but by the time I finish the show, the conversation has ended (though there might be a brief quick chat about it).
I’m not trying to turn this post into a sad FOMO post. I acknowledge and accept that my choice to wait does prevent me from joining in the conversations. Instead, I put the question out there if the community feeling of discussing a show is better than the prolonged but gratifying feeling of binging a show in its entirety. What are your thoughts?
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