Binge watching is the new standard

I have all but quit watching TV shows when they are broadcast. I believe I stopped watching live TV shows when Friends went off the air before DVRs were a thing. I don't like commercials and with Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, and other knockoffs, you can watch an entire season rather quickly. Once the streaming services became available it made it too easy to watch what I wanted on my schedule. There are some shows that I like to keep up to date on so I will wait about a month until they get at least 4 shows in the books before I begin watching. Then there's that awful waiting period for them to get another 4 episodes in the queue.

The problem today is we've been tricked into watching commercials again. Now each service has a "premium" tier with no ads. They've gone back to releasing shows every week so no more binge watching when a new show comes out. That way you can see more ads. Unless you pay!