From the wait to watch a new show to binge watch: Changing times!

Remember when you used to get back home and finish your homework just in time to watch the 5 pm show of Pokemon being aired on television or wait for the call from your friend on the landline? Those days were some good old golden days. Today, kids come back home from school and pick up their parents’ phone to search up shows on YouTube to watch.

We have entered a fast paced world where we tend to prefer things to reach us faster. Binge watch is one such concept of the fast paced world. We feel that a series or a set of movies are better finished at one go. The lockdown is seeming to provide the time for everyone to catch up on their favourite shows and binge watch the series or movies on their list. Netflix and Amazon are releasing a new update everyday about the new movies and series that are to be streamed during the quarantine.

Even the little kids today watch more of the shows online and not on television. But an entire generation has missed the thrill and rush to wait for the time when their favourite show would air. Those good old days did give some of us a different kind of happiness.

Times have changed, we all binge watch shows today like anyone else but I guess that’s what the world is learning today with the pandemic creating a different scenario, to slow down and to take time to read, watch or understand things in a relaxed manner. Probably watch one episode one day and rather not have the urge to finish it all once, to back off from being fast forward and just relax to overcome the overflow of information, perhaps.