But there’s a downside as well. Because a series is not just an ongoing story broken up into chapters. It’s a set of episodes, each of which necessarily bears similarities and differences to every other episode. As we binge watch, it’s so easy to lose track of where one episode begins and another ends; we’re focused pretty exclusively on that most important question of all storytelling – then what happens? I like to think of myself as a fairly sophisticated viewer, but that just means that when I tear through a season of Jessica Jones I’m vaguely aware that I’m not paying attention to episodic
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