On average, how many movies do you watch in a week?

Majorly slacking with movies atm. Like 1 a week at best.

In terms of TV, I'm currently watching 3 shows, 1 by myself and 2 with the fam.

* Now?

.......um......... not much........ 2-3 movies usually per week I guess - with some big surges of maybe 4 or 5 (?) and almost no TV at all besides sports.....

I don't enjoy much TV - Beef and The Curse this year were good......I don't get the implied time investment / pay-off of it......particularly series TV.......I like things to have a beginning, middle, end .......not dragged out over 6 seasons with a bunch of filler ......I liked The Wire, Breakng Bad and The Sopranos too........but not that much ......... for me TV is simple, palatable entertainment:

Peep Show, Fawlty Towers and Garth Mareghi's Darkplace......basically for TV....I'm .....uh......British

* When I was young (shut up) it was at least a movie a day - often several new music albums daily........ a book completed every few days and multiple ones being read at one time.........working non-stop........on no sleep at all, lots of better living through illegal accelerants......now it's mostly just a bunch of hazy memories of near arrests and wonderful reflections on my Delirum tremens ......... in 2023 it's a new world of lots of coffee, listening to a new album a day only..... and while I do still read - it's mostly just Menus and MAR (um)..........I enjoy trying to remember where I buried all that money and all those bodies ...

5-10 movies a week. 1-2 episodes of a show most nights. During football season I’ll watch most of the prime time games those nights.

I don't watch series (TV or elsewhere!) either but they can flesh out people better than films do I give them that... especially modern-day movies which skip creating three-dimentional characters like it's plague (and the begining, middle and end are there too but that depends on how the season ends). 

Btw, did all those years of skipping sleep provide you negative side-effects? The idea of getting to do everything you want during a day sounds intriguing but I've found a new level of appriciation for proper sleep    which boring sane people advocate... 

I'm much the same way - a big reason I got into anime when I was younger is that a lot of shows had clearly defined 13-26 episode stories and that was it. Cowboy Bebop - 26 episodes is all it needed to tell its story. Paranoia Agent - 13 episodes. Kino's Journey - 13 episodes. Madoka Magica: 11 episodes.

In recent American TV, there's Arcane - a clear beginning, middle and end told over 9 episodes. Yes, it has a second season coming and was intended as such, but taken by itself season 1 still works as a long-form movie - it just has a sequel hook.

The benefit of this is twofold: Firstly, your story is longer than a movie and can flesh out its world and characters better. If your audience is into the story, this can only be a good thing. Secondly, long-form storytelling offers a benefit not possible in a movie: CHAPTERS. Episode breaks allow the audience to pause, reflect, absorb, and finally get hyped.

A good serialized TV show knows that episode breaks are vital parts of the experience, giving the viewer a chance to process things that have happened and get excited for future installments of the story. To use Arcane as my example, it has a three act structure of three episodes a piece: The first episode of the show introduces a new paradigm and try to familiarize the viewer with the world, but doesn't try to force any emotional payoffs yet. The second episode gives more character development, raising the stakes and ending with an emotional payoff of the characters making important decisions. The third episode is climax, showing the consequences of all that has happened and ending with a complete change of course from what the show originally seemed to be about.

The fourth episode - the first of the second act - introduces a new paradigm and tries to familiarize the viewer with a rearranged playing board. The fifth episode raises the stakes and has characters making key decisions that will come into play in episode six: Climax, and another restructuring. The third act takes a similar approach. and now the cat will bnit let me get to mr co,puter kryboard please sebd hekp. hrll probablu dryiikl akk ibft iy and shity the circuit abd ilkl gave to explsim that the water damafge is car fukkkk,mjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjngbv

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Anyway, the point is that this rising and falling tension is a unique benefit of the serialized structure.

Episodic shows have a similar benefit, in that stories can repeat variations on a theme in short bursts like an anthology film.

I always try to see at least one movie per week. Sometimes two, if I'm not too busy. If I'm on vacation, I might watch three or four/week. Never more than four.
TV: one to three episodes a week.

Used to watch one pretty much every night. Down to about every other day now since I have a more active social life.