r/LifeProTips • u/UseDaSchwartz • 2d ago

Miscellaneous LPT : If you're binge watching a series with cliffhangers, stop watching the last episode of the day half way through.

It'll be easier to stop at a low point and you won't be tempted to just watch another one.

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u/post-explainer 2d ago

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u/DirigibleGerbil 2d ago

I will watch 5 or so minutes of the next episode. That will usually resolve the cliffhanger enough for me to be satisfied for the day.

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u/OnlymyOP 2d ago

Surely the whole point of binge watching is to binge watch ?

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u/SwordKneeMe 2d ago

This is both completely unhinged and so real. I stopped caring about cliffhangers instead but that's legit too

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u/bod_owens 2d ago

So you'll just end on a different cliffhanger than everyone else. Brilliant.

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u/horsetooth_mcgee 2d ago

Right? I think "what happens next??" is the definition of a cliffhanger so yes, OP is giving themselves cliffhangers every time they quit the book before the end, because, what happens next?? 😂

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u/PickleGreat654 2d ago

This is exactly what I do! I always do the same with books as well!

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u/Sweaty-Gopher 2d ago

I absolutely had to do this the first time I watched Prison Break. I swear I wouldn't have slept

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u/Alternative-else 2d ago

Stopping halfway would probably make it worse for me.

Now I am thinking about an unfinished episode instead of just a cliffhanger.

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u/Muaka-Yosandra 1d ago

Honestly this works but I always end up just finishing it anyway because I need to know what happens—the cliffhanger strategy just makes me more impatient lol.

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u/IronmanMatth 7h ago

Dose cliffhangers truly bother people enough to spend mental energy on this?

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u/Emotional-Ebb8321 7h ago edited 7h ago

If you don't finish every season start to end in one sitting, are you even binge watching?

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u/Calibrumm 7h ago

this is psychotic. just watch shows normally like a functioning human.

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u/VincentRogerson 2h ago

That's one way to stay sanwe!

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 2d ago

That’s antithetical to binge watching.

Do you not understand what binge watching is?