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Hey streaming services, Why are you controlling my time and stifling my binge watching?

Carol Durant
2 min readMay 22, 2022

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It started with Ozark on Netflix. Yada yada yada pandemic. Yada yada yada awards season. My inability to binge watch the show impacted my thoughts about the show. I thought I didn’t like it. The momentum of the show was interrupted. I rallied, researched and recovered. I discovered it wasn’t me, it was Netflix. They stifled my ability to binge watch by splitting up the last season. Netflix used kryptonite to neutralize itself and now I know it’s no longer a specialty item. Now Netflix is just a regular pseudo-network streaming television channel. It runs ads with my paid subscription.

It’s happening again on freevee with my new favorite show, Bosch:Legacy. freevee is the rebranded name of the formerly known IMDbTV. It’s currently a free streaming service owned by Amazon. Bosch the origin series originally streamed on Amazon Prime and is a totally binge worthy show, starring Titus Welliver. Without spoilers, it is about cops, crime and family. A great series with seven seasons that you can watch on your own time frame. I enjoyed my ability to binge watch Bosch.

Again, no spoiler alerts, Bosch:Legacy has a twist, but it is well written, interesting and intense. The source material for the television series is provided from the novels written by Michael Connelly. Initially…

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Carol Durant
Carol Durant

Written by Carol Durant

author, poet, playwright, recording artist, actor, founder and host of Outliers Poetry Brunch

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