to binge-watch
binge-watch: verbo transitivo
binge-watching: sostantivo non numerabile
anche binge-viewing: sostantivo non numerabile
Con l’espressione binge-watching s’intende il guardare vari episodi di una serie o di uno spettacolo televisivo uno dopo l’altro. Prima dell’avvento dei cofanetti DVD, in grado di contenere una (o più) serie complete, bisognava pazientare un’interminabile settimana per vedere una nuova puntata del programma televisivo preferito. Poi sono arrivati la pay tv, quella on demand, lo streaming, il downloading… – chi più ne ha, più ne metta – e anziché doversi adeguare al palinsesto stabilito da un’emittente oggi siamo noi a decidere come, quando e quanto spesso goderci i programmi che più ci piacciono.
To binge-watch prende le mosse dal verbo to binge che significa abbuffarsi, fare qualcosa in modo compulsivo (mangiare o bere, di solito), perciò ci sono binge eaters e binge drinkers. In inglese, l’espressione binge-watching implica dunque che il fare una scorpacciata di episodi in una sola seduta sia un’attività non proprio salutare: chissà quante cose si potrebbero fare per impiegare il tempo libero in modo proficuo invece di restare incollati allo schermo a guardare un episodio dopo l’altro in maniera quasi ossessiva.
People everywhere are increasingly engaging in a practice known as binge-watching – but is this new practice ruining TV?
Binge-viewing is one of the most profound changes to hit the smallscreen business in memory, a revolution in the way TV is distributed and consumed.
Out of 15,196 respondents, 91 percent said that binge-watching shows was a common behavior, and 40 percent had binge-watched a show within a week.
binge-watch: transitive verb
binge-watching: noun uncountable
also binge-viewing: noun uncountable
Binge-watching is the activity of watching several episodes of a TV show one after the other. In the old days you had to wait for up to a week to watch the next epsiode of your favourite series. Not any more. The advent of DVDs capable of holding entire series on just a few discs, followed by satellite channels broadcasting popular series back to back, as well as play on demand, downloading and streaming means that it is now possible to watch an entire series as soon as it has been broadcast and for ever afterwards.
Binge-watch is based on the verb binge, which means to do too much of something, especially eating or drinking. A binge drinker is someone who drinks a lot of alcohol in a short period of time in order to get drunk; a binge eater consumes food compulsively. Binge-watching therefore carries a suggestion that this is something that is not very good for you. There are so many other things you could be doing with your time, but instead you are glued to the screen watching one episode after another in a somewhat obsessive and unhealthy way.
People everywhere are increasingly engaging in a practice known as binge-watching – but is this new practice ruining TV?
Binge-viewing is one of the most profound changes to hit the smallscreen business in memory, a revolution in the way TV is distributed and consumed.
Out of 15,196 respondents, 91 percent said that binge-watching shows was a common behavior, and 40 percent had binge-watched a show within a week.
