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The summer I turned binge-y75%
By Kenny Malone0% Wailin Wong0% Meg Cramer0% Willa Rubin0%
12/24/2025, 8:30:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Hindsight Bias, Optimism Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 42.9% saturation with 81 hits. Analysis detected 415 faulty-reasoning hits from 189 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.3% and a BS Rank of 75% (4,339 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.20% of the article peer group.
On the eve of Netflix shoveling a fourish-hour chunk of Stranger Things onto Christmas Day, we visit the past, present, and future of binge-dropped television shows.
The strategy of releasing an entire season at the same time has been key to taking Netflix from a little startup that used to lend us DVDs in the mail … to a company so big and powerful, it is maybe going to buy Warner Brothers and own Bugs Bunny and Tony Soprano and the Harry Potter movies.
But even Netflix may be flirting with some slightly less binge-y models of content release.
Are we entering … the end of the binge drop?
On our latest: what data tells us about binge watching.
Was it the greatest business decision, and who does binge watching really benefit?
Here's some of the research.
This episode was produced by Willa Rubin and edited by Meg Cramer.
It was fact-checked by Dania Suleman and engineered by Maggie Luthar.
Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
Music: NPR Source Audio - "Tinker Snow Bell," "In the Heat of the Night," "Elevated," "Rolling Out of Town," and "Blue and Green."
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