THE SERIES

Series are an interesting type of storytelling and now more than ever, series are becoming more popular. As a person that grew up with series like, Harry Potter, Goosebumps, The Hungers Games, The Divergent Series, Friends, Seventh Heaven, Secret Life of the American Teenager, and That’s 70s Show it is an important part of young adult novels and movies. Series like this make the view have a connection with the storyline and characters. I think this is one of the reasons my generation likes to binge watch shows, we like to have an emotional attachment and become consumed by a show. I would concerned the series the original binge media consumption but my generation.  

After watching the final Harry Potter and Hunger Games movie, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I spent 12 years growing up with the characters of Harry Potter, I had an emotional attachment to the movies and when that ended in 2012 I felt like my childhood was gone. The same sadness and an empty happens when you finish binge watching show on Netflix. But I don’t think the effect lasts as long, because you just look for your new fix. But ABC Family cured that because 4 times a year they put on a Harry Potter weekend were you can binge watch the entire series in one weekend. And now they are doing the same thing with the Hunger Games movies. Networks like ABC Family make us long for our childhood by playing movies and shows from it, and that's how they get viewers.

But my generation and age group moved from binge watching and reading young adult media to shows like The Office, Parks and Recs, Game of Thrones. We grew up and so did the shows we watched. The programs we watch now are more focused on what's to come in our 20s and 30s and more grown up fantasy series. I think the media and literature that surrounds us is a really important part of how we grew up, and re-watching those shows, movies and books gives us nostalgia for our childhood. But moving on from childhood storylines is a good thing because we can’t relate as much.