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I enjoy binge-watching but feel a creeping guilt that increases with every episode

Entertainment guilt combines productivity anxiety — the cultural narrative that unstructured leisure is wasteful — with loss of time awareness during absorbing content. The guilt increases as the rational mind reasserts itself between episodes. Ironically, people who watch without guilt report enjoying the same content more.

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The term binge-watching was coined by Netflix engineers who were surprised to discover that the majority of users who started a new series would complete it within one week. The platform is designed around this behaviour.

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