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How Many Episodes Does It Take to Get Hooked on a TV Show?

In search of correlation, causation, and commitment

Michelle Paret
Wed, 11/18/2015 - 11:34
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I have two young children, and I work full-time, so my adult TV time is about as rare as finding a Kardashian-free tabloid. So I can’t commit to just any TV show. It better be a good one. I was therefore extremely excited when Netflix analyzed viewer data to find out at what point watchers get hooked on the first season of various shows.

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Specifically, they identified the episode at which 70 percent of viewers who watched that episode went on to complete the entire first season. Translation for me: If I can tell early on if I’m going to like a show, I’m game.

If the vast majority of viewers get hooked on The Walking Dead and all its zombie apocalypse gore-galore after just two episodes and I’m not feeling it by then, I’ll call it a day and move onto the next “it” show.

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Submitted by dkhays on Mon, 11/23/2015 - 10:42

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Since we have only watched one of these series and it was only a couple of episodes (Blacklist) we didn't get fully hooked.  I liked it, but we couldn't remember its broadcast time and other things came up so we didn't get back to it.  Most of the shows you mentioned are not of interest in the first place, so we didn't even consider them. For instance, why does it take several seasons to tell someone how I met your mother?  It seems to me it could have done in an hour or less!.  Zombie shows are of no interest at all.  Many times it is who is in the show not what it is about at first, then after you watch it, then you get hooked.  Tim Allen's Last Man Standing is an example of that.  Charlie Sheen's Two and a Half Men was funny, even though we didn't like his "lifestyle" on the show it was a funny show, after he left it went downhill in a hurry and we quit watching it. 

Shows like Perry Mason, Matlock, Columbo, Hogan's Heroes, George Burns and Garcie Allen are all worth watching again and again and again!  Most of the new shows are not even considered in the first place.   We have not seen one episode of most of the ones in your list.  So I guess we don't count in the statistics!

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