The Bingewatch Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/pbseries/the-bingewatch/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png The Bingewatch Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/pbseries/the-bingewatch/ 32 32 The Bingewatch: It’s Never Just a Dress https://www.publicbooks.org/the-bingewatch-its-never-just-a-dress/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/the-bingewatchits-never-just-a-dress/ My ongoing love affair with TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress began about two months ago, when a close friend prescribed the long-running reality show as a remedy for my encroaching PhD graduation anxiety. It was May, and thus also the cusp of wedding season, making SYTTD a particularly timely recommendation. I’d been beset by […]

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]]> The Bingewatch: “Love” Angeles https://www.publicbooks.org/the-bingewatch-love-angeles/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/the-bingewatch-love-angeles/ Despite today’s abundance of “quality television” programming, TV has yet to fully shed its reputation as a degraded medium. Why else would the binge have taken hold as a (if not the) prime metaphor for contemporary television viewing? Where the representative of televisual excess was previously the couch potato, a human-turned-tuber upon cathode-ray immersion, today’s TV-watching […]

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