Netflix Studied Your Binge-Watching Habit. That Didn’t Take Long.

At a time when there’s more scripted television than ever, how long does it take to finish a complete season of a show? According to Netflix, not much time at all. Subscribers who finish the first season of a TV show generally wrap it up in a week, Netflix says. And those viewers are dedicating a significant part of their time to do it: They watch about two hours a day. These are some of the findings from a study Netflix released after tracking its global base of subscribers and how they watched the first seasons of more than 100 television series over a recent seven-month stretch. The stuff viewers lap up? Horror and thrillers. The shows that take them slightly longer? Political dramas and sophisticated comedies.