Turns out binge watching isn’t actually your choice

  BY: Adrian Smith Binge watching: taking in more than two episodes of the same show in a single sitting. The ‘hook episode,’ as coined by psychologists at Netflix, is the exact episode that keeps TV watchers on their couch…

How binge-watching is ruining television and making you depressed

BY: JESSICA BEUKER   Ten years ago, Netflix streaming didn’t exist. If you wanted to watch a television show, you had to tune in on a specific time of the week, where you would watch one episode of the show and…

Netflix binge watching is re-wiring our brains

BY: MICHAEL LYONS Popular political drama and Netflix original House of Cards recently aired its third season—all at once. Flying in the face of television convention, the model for Netflix-original shows is to set a date to release an entire…