Does anyone really do a marathon of a tv show?

LighterGuy

I've heard this mentioned time and time again. That a person or group of people have sat down and watched an entire season of something. Weather it be a season of 24, Desperate Housewives or anything you can think of :P
Have people actually sat down and watched it all? .. Like start to finish. Not stopping for a few hours and said "watch the rest tomorrow" :P

Take season five of 24 for random example. 24 episodes at a running time of 45 minutes each. That's 18 hours of an entire season. Can a person really watch it all without getting bored?



So am I the only person who thinks its BS when a person says "yeah, i watched the season in a day" ?

Hasmunch

I watched 7 episodes (out of 14 i think) of Season 2 of the wire in a row before. Eyes were in bits after it. Great hungover day. Wouldnt recommend it though...

whirlpool

Six hours in one day would be the most I could do, I think. My eyes would get sore and strained, I'd start to feel a tad dizzy and a little unwell, but more than anything a crippling childhood guilt about watching tv all day would set in and make me feel.... dirty. I highly recommend it!

LighterGuy

Domo230 wrote: »

I watched every episode of the big bang theory in one day so yea.....

I actually never watched that show.
But IMDB.com says its actually only 21 mins per episode. So ... you only spent what, 8 hours watching a season? ... hardly 18 hours (your entire day)

MrStuffins

All the time. It's how I consume good TV.

In fact nowadays I avoid watching a series of a show until it's over so I can sit and watch it all together.

I do it all the time with the girlfriend. Some weekend night when we're just gonna hang out together we;ll have a few drinks and watch a marathon of something! It's awesome!

KERSPLAT!

Watched 13 episodes of The Shield in a row (whole 1st season), only stopping for food and a poop, Vic Mackey, what a legend!!

MrStuffins

Domo230 wrote: »

I watched every episode of the big bang theory in one day so yea.....

You mean you watched 2 episodes of that sh*t and decided to watch the rest? :eek:

MrStuffins

IPAM wrote: »

Watched 13 episodes of The Shield in a row (whole 1st season), only stopping for food and a poop, Vic Mackey, what a legend!!

Watch them on your laptop and you only have to stop for food!

KERSPLAT!

LighterGuy wrote: »

I actually never watched that show.
But IMDB.com says its actually only 21 mins per episode. So ... you only spent what, 8 hours watching a season? ... hardly 18 hours (your entire day)

It on it's 5th season... Did he watch EVERY episode?? :pac:

amacachi

I got through 3 seasons of The Sopranos in 4 days. Also 2 seasons of Community in 3 days, all 4 of TBBT on 5 non-consecutive days as I watched a lot of them with someone else.

Not so long ago I regularly watched 12 hours or more of TV that wasn't being broadcast at the time. Add in some sport, news etc. and it's way more.

Bearing all that in mind and looking at my postcount it's easy to see why I've got so many friends.

DonkeyStyle \o/

MrStuffins wrote: »

In fact nowadays I avoid watching a series of a show until it's over so I can sit and watch it all together.

Especially with shows that have cliff-hangers at the end of every episode.
Having to wait a week to find out what happened next? Nope!

MrStuffins

amacachi wrote: »

Also 2 seasons of Community in 3 days.......

Another one I watch in marathons.

Funniest show on TV!

RichieC

Got through the wire in a couple of weeks. twice.

amacachi

RichieC wrote: »

Got through the wire in a couple of weeks. twice.

I actually don't know how many times I've watched The Wire, it's either 5 or 6 times. ^_^

amacachi

MrStuffins wrote: »

Another one I watch in marathons.

Funniest show on TV!

I just can't not watch new episodes at the earliest possible opportunity, it's too good. :pac:

minidazzler

I watched every episode of the Inbetweeners in 3 days when I was in America.

I watched every episode of Battlestar Galactica in 2 weeks, watching about 8 episodes a night and only not watching on nights I went drinking.

whirlpool

minidazzler wrote: »

I watched every episode of the Inbetweeners in 3 days when I was in America.

I think that's, what, nine hours in total? :P

Ah being petty feels great.

Welruc

watched season 1 and 2 of prison break in 2 days also i could watch the wire for hours without getting bored

smash

I've done a few Dexter marathon's now at this stage.

Spunge

i watched the first season of breaking bad in one day i think. Only about 7 episdoes though. It's the way i like to watch these shows, no waiting for a week after a cliffhanger, just right into the next one. Can keep you up pretty late.

Snakeblood

LighterGuy wrote: »

I've heard this mentioned time and time again. That a person or group of people have sat down and watched an entire season of something. Weather it be a season of 24, Desperate Housewives or anything you can think of :P
Have people actually sat down and watched it all? .. Like start to finish. Not stopping for a few hours and said "watch the rest tomorrow" :P

Take season five of 24 for random example. 24 episodes at a running time of 45 minutes each. That's 18 hours of an entire season. Can a person really watch it all without getting bored?



So am I the only person who thinks its BS when a person says "yeah, i watched the season in a day" ?

I've watched entire seasons of Arrested Development and the Wire in a day. So yar boo sucks. Not sure what else I'd watch an entire season of though.

connollys

Watched entire season of Game of Thrones in a day before, only sat down to watch the first but couldnt turn it off.

Got through season and half of Community in a weekend, best comedy on tv at the mo, though not for long, thanks NBC, keep rubbish like Two and a Half Men on air and dump anything semi clever.

Rabies

Watched series one of Archer and Game of Thrones over two days. Thats about it.

I watched 4 seasons of Supernatural in about 3 days.

44leto

I watched the whole Wire series one weekend and that was weird.

I also lately watched all of season one of the Boardwalk empire over a week 2 weeks ago. It was a good way to watch them. I am now recording season 2 to do the same sometime.

VW 1

Definitely done this before with the wire, sopranos and entourage..quite easily done when i was in college and had spare days to watch tv all over the place

foxyboxer

From the Earth to the Moon. About 5 years ago.

sbsquarepants

Domo230 wrote: »

Think ill do a mad men marathon next. I have heard good things.

Spare yourself the effort, i watched 2 and half seasons of that shíte waiting for something to happen and it just doesn't. It's a very stylish but ultimately pointless and storyless waste of time.

I've got stuck in the odd lazy weekend and watched 6 or 7 straight hours of the wire. Only got into it about 7 or 8 months ago but i watched the whole thing from start to finish in about 10 sittings of 6 or hours at a go. Couldn't recommend it enough, McNulty is a legend, i also loved bubbles and stringer.

My next one to tackle is seinfeld 66 hours of pure comedy genius:D

Azureus

Love TV marathons, have done it with xfiles (obviously not ALL in a day but over a couple of weekends)/arrested development/community/bbt...

Love doing it with movies too-nothing beats a hangover day in bed with someone plus sweets watching all the rocky flicks, or back to the futures, star wars etc

VW 1

Extended versions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy for around 13 hours of viewing pleasure

inforfun

Any season of the Wire is best watched in a marathon.
Drinks within reach.
Dominos on speed dial.

Only interruption is changing discs in the player.

Really like it when i can download a tv serie i overlooked for a few years.
"Borrow" all the episodes from the internet in 1 go and multiple days of marathon watching.

muppetkiller

Watched the Band of Brothers in a single sitting (well had to get up to change disks)
Also watch Game of Thrones Season 1 straight through. And my attention didn't drop once....what an amazing show.

On 9/11/2001 Myself and the other half spent the whole day watching box sets of Friends. Curtains closed , phones off, world blocked out We heard about the twin towers about 8 o clock that night . Probably the last people in Ireland to hear about it.

denhaagenite

First date with now husband was Season 3 of Arrested Development. What a show!

44leto

muppetkiller wrote: »

Watched the Band of Brothers in a single sitting (well had to get up to change disks)
Also watch Game of Thrones Season 1 straight through. And my attention didn't drop once....what an amazing show.

I got the box set for an xmas present, I never seen it and it was Christmas, I had a tray of cans getting cold in my yard. So I put it on thinking 6 dvds, an hour each so about 6 or 8 cans, nice.

But they were an hour and half long and brilliant, I start watching them at about 3 and I finally watched the last one at about 2 in the morning. I was absolutely twisted going to bed, I barely made it up the stairs. It was the best Stephen's day I ever had.

EdenHazard

watched how i met your mother up to season 6 in a bout 5 days, now need a break from it ha

maximoose

Defintely not. Reguarly do marathon days of Lost, 24, Oz, Peep Show, The Office. When I'm finished start again, I love these shows.

Last weekend I watched the 1st series of Sherlock Holmes (granted, it's only 3 eps but 90 mins an ep). Itching for the next series.

GavRedKing

Watched The Sporanos season one in total a few years back and was like a zombie afterwards, for the next few weeks just used to watch 2,3 episodes a day, every other day and it was easier to manage.

Wouldnt do it now though.

YFlyer

MrStuffins wrote: »

Watch them on your laptop and you only have to stop for food!

Not forgetting your GF

YFlyer

Jake1 wrote: »

On 9/11/2001 Myself and the other half spent the whole day watching box sets of Friends. Curtains closed , phones off, world blocked out We heard about the twin towers about 8 o clock that night . Probably the last people in Ireland to hear about it.

What happened that date?

Biggins

Have watched 24 right through - as well Stargate, The Soprano's, All Creatures Great And Small, The West Wing, Amerika (showing my age here), Colditz (BBC series), Battlestar Glaticia, ER, Madmen, Inspector Morse and Lewis, Primeval, Mile High, Dads' Army and Prison Break to name a few.

Currently catching up on Waterloo Road.

There is so much now crap on TV and most of the time at night, in our home its turned off.
We only tune in, turn on for specific programmes then its turned off again. Also we mainly watch a series that is likely to make it thru from start to finish.
The more TV networks pull the plug on shows too early before an decent ending, the less we are inclined to watch as its broadcast and then go buy a boxset that DOES go from start to finish.

Logical Fallacy

denhaagenite wrote: »

First date with now husband was Season 3 of Arrested Development. What a show!

It's getting another season apparently.

Can't wait.

I've done loads of TV marathons, the joys of being sick.

Biggins

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

It's getting another season apparently.

...And a possible film.

The House Of Wolves

Me and my friends have Doctor Who marathons sometimes. Sometimes it's Classic Who but normally it's NuWho because there are different people who might not know much about it, and NuWho is an easy starting point. It's really good fun!

I have gone through a season of The Inbetweeners just today, but that's only 6 episodes x 25 minutes so... Not too much really!

cloneslad

I started watching the first episode of modern family on a monday afternoon and finished all of them by wednesday afternoon. Also did pretty much the same with 'Breaking bad' and 'It's always sunny in philidelphia'.

Fbjm

Every season of Frasier. My brother and I were only really old enough to enjoy it after they stopped making it (2004) and my parents loved (and still love) it, so we got all 11 series on DVD and watched one every saturday for nearly three months 6 episodes per season, great summer that was!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Not a series, but I have watched the entire Godfather trilogy in one sitting.

Keith186

I haven't bothered watching an entire series in a day. I've watched 8 episodes of longer series.

Favouties are The Shield, The Wire & Breaking Bad in no particular order.

Laura_lolly87

I watched 4 seasons of the big bang theory in the space of 2 days. I only really stopped to sleep.

Superbus

I watched the entire 30 episodes of Twin Peaks over about a week, any quicker and I don't think I'd be here to tell you about it.

My brain and that of the friend I watched it with were absolutely drained afterwards. The swing in quality of that show is unbelievable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE

cafecolour

I have trouble NOT watching a series as a marathon, if it's good. Especially if it's a drama series with a plot that runs over the season, I rarely watch comedies as a marathon.

Just did with Game of Thrones. I didn't intend to, I just would keep saying just one more. The same way I will play video games for 12 hours straight (just 15 more minutes. Just until I make it past the next X...).

Yes, I have impulse control issues