[JR1427]

I'm not saying its evil or anything, but on demand TV is IMO not a good thing for kids. It can be a real battle to get my daughter away from Bluey. Back in my day, we had to wait at least a day for the next episode, or often a week, or more! TV was actually "seasonal", which it no longer is.

I firmly believe that humans need seasons, i.e. periods of time that are different from each other, either summer, winter etc, or periods where a TV show is simply not accessible.

What almost always works to get away from TV, though, is if _I_ start a project, and within minutes my daughter will have picked up her own project, and we'll be companionably working on something.

[watwut]

I agree that nonstop access is not good.

But I also think that current ability to see the series at once and then be done with that is strictly superior over past "episode once a week" schedule. First, it leads to way more interesting shows, but also it affects my life much less.

The tv schedule used to rule peoples days, they would try to be at home for the show, they would stop socializing and what not just to see the show.

[JR1427]

I remember a kid in school who had an alarm set for 1750, so he would have time to run home from the park to catch The Simpsons (which was shown daily at 1800 for years, with two episodes on a Friday!)

[sotix]

> I firmly believe that humans need seasons, i.e. periods of time that are different from each other, either summer, winter etc

This is actually a very weird part about living in Los Angeles. It doesn’t feel like time passes when the weather is always the same.

[dyauspitr]

It sure beats having “seasons” and essentially having 6 months of the year being a complete waste because it’s too cold to do things outside the house.

[imp0cat]

Understood, it can be a real battle to get myself away from Bluey. :)

I find that setting (and enforcing!) a limit works great though. Play X episodes a day, the turn the TV off.

[JR1427]

Yup, setting limits in advance is the way to go.

"okay, just one more episode" definitely doesn't work!

[robertlagrant]

I agree - it would be good to be able to set Netflix to show two episodes and then stop.

[fragmede]

there's a setting to stop auto playing after one, but not for two episodes