Imagine living your everyday life and on your way to bank one day you run into … yourself?
In just three days, we (Emma, Jenny, Kinye, Kristina, and Mallary) plowed our way through over two seasons of Orphan Black. We laughed and gasped our way through this series, and we fell in love with the show’s host of quirky characters. Why?
For our tv binge, our group watched Orphan Black. This show follows the adventures of Sarah Manning as she discovers her place in a world of corporate conspiracy and long-buried secrets. Sarah discovers she is a clone, made for a top secret experiment. She becomes part of a group (nicknamed "Clone Club") allies among her fellow clones and friends as they unite to unravel the mystery of why their creators made them.
Over the course of the weekend, we found that binge watching as a group was a different experience than binge watching it in private. To begin with, the group found watching the show together to be a more enjoyable experience. By watching it in a group, it became a social experience. It was fun to enjoy others’ experiences in addition to our own. We would all laugh, gasp, or curse at different things. Watching it together allowed us to feed off of each other's enthusiasm.
Part of the appeal of binge watching television is the instant gratification of getting to the next part of the story. But we also discovered that binge watching in a group allowed us another kind of instant gratification. Because we were all on the same page within the show, we could freely share our reactions with one another as events in the show unfolded. We only needed to turn to one of our peers to begin a conversation about what we have just witnessed together.
Our experiences of binge watching alone, on the other hand, varied wildly. One of us thought that it was easier to become immersed in the story when watching alone, because there were fewer distractions demanding our attention. However, other members of our group thought that it was harder to binge alone. Without a group keeping us involved in the show and each other, focusing on a screen for three hours was more difficult.
You later find out that you, along with your ‘identical’ population are clones apart of a science experiment. You have recently learned that you yourself has become ‘self aware’. Along with other secrets kept from you, you discover that you have a monitor who watches you daily and reports back intel. Who do you think would be your monitor?
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