--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: HBO’s Richard Plepler: Binge Watching Is Great—Until It Stops Us From Sharing image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34457a223a80400/698863b9524fc06a72df4834/qe-color-overlay-template-richard-plepler.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 16, 2015 # Binge Watching Is Great—Until It Stops Us From Sharing by Richard Plepler  NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage)Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Alex Thebez for TIME For catching up, binge watching is great fun. But there is nothing that compares to the anticipation of the next episode of a great series, on HBO or elsewhere, that enables you to be a part of our collective cultural conversation. So many people go online now to tweet and share their reactions with others. Binge viewing steps on the fun of being a part of that communal experience. So it’s not either/or—bingeing is just one more option in an on-demand world. _Plepler is chairman and CEO of HBO._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029778/richard-plepler-how-much-binge-watching-is-too-much/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029778/richard-plepler-how-much-binge-watching-is-too-much/"},"headline":"HBO’s Richard Plepler: Binge Watching Is Great—Until It Stops Us From Sharing","datePublished":"2015-09-16T15:23:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:09:08.253Z","description":"It can take you away from the collective cultural conversation","url":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029778/richard-plepler-how-much-binge-watching-is-too-much/","keywords":["Question Everything"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34457a223a80400/698863b9524fc06a72df4834/qe-color-overlay-template-richard-plepler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34457a223a80400/698863b9524fc06a72df4834/qe-color-overlay-template-richard-plepler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029778/richard-plepler-how-much-binge-watching-is-too-much/","name":"HBO’s Richard Plepler: Binge Watching Is Great—Until It Stops Us From Sharing"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Question Everything: How Much Binge Watching Is Too Much?","description":"TIME hit the streets to ask New Yorkers several offbeat questions designed to provoke and prod the brain.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PVOZ5UVi/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-09-18T14:47:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PVOZ5UVi.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029778/richard-plepler-how-much-binge-watching-is-too-much/","duration":"PT1M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4029778/richard-plepler-how-much-binge-watching-is-too-much/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```