I know I’ve been a little flaky with the consistent writing, but I have to blame it on Netflix. Anyone not living in a pop culture free world knows that Orange is the New Black premiered last Friday releasing all of season 2 episodes. I actually held off until Sunday to get started, but now (Thursday) I only have 2 of the 13 left to go.

I’ve been working on a couple of new posts, but don’t get too far into them because then I get that itch to watch the show. I’m actually surprised that I’ve been pacing myself with a 3 episode per day cap.

It’s fun while you work your way through the episodes, but then what?! That’s the thing with binge watching shows. It’s over way too quickly and then you have to wait close to a year to watch anymore. I even felt that this last short season of Mad Men went by too quickly and that was one episode a week for 7 weeks.

Most people, some of my friends included, now won’t watch shows during their regular run. They wait until the DVD’s are out or full seasons are on Netflix so as to not have to wait from week to week to watch the next episode. I actually like that anticipation. I feel that with good TV like Mad Men or Parenthood it actually gives me the week to process what happened and wonder what might be in store for the following week.

Obviously, I don’t value that enough to not pace myself with OITNB. Once it’s at your fingertips, it really is too hard to release. So I’ll get back to watching now and promise that by the weekend I’ll be back to more regular thought provoking posts.