The Netflix Method Of Dropping Shows All In One Go Is Over

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If you're as old as I am, you'll remember a time when streaming services weren't a thing. You couldn't have The Office running on a loop 24 hours a day to keep you company. If you wanted to watch an episode or two, you had to hope it was showing on TV at that exact moment, or dig out the DVDs, which were so expensive you probably didn't bother. You also had to settle for whatever episode happened to be on at the time. No flicking straight to Dinner Party for the very best uncomfortable comedy The Office has to offer. As for new shows, they would be shown on TV once a week between autumn and spring, with pretty much nothing over the summer.

Then Netflix came along, and quickly graduated from sending DVDs in the mail and asking you to send them back. It became the first streaming giant, in large part because the heads at Netflix quickly cottoned on that people like to sit and watch the same TV shows episode after episode. The dawn of binge-watching. From that point on, it didn't just add old shows it acquired all in one go, but it also added its brand new shows and Netflix Originals all at once too.

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Netflix giving us new seasons all in one go is why the weekly viewing and seasons running from autumn to spring sounds like ancient history. Or at least it did for a few years. Enter Disney+, and a fresh bit of online discourse to add to the pile. There are plenty of streaming services out there, but Disney effectively took the number two spot behind Netflix as soon as it was announced, edging out Amazon Prime. To be fair, its back catalog runs so deep that it boasts content from the 1930s.

That means Disney is able to call some major streaming shots. It looked