TV General : How can hardcore fans rewatch a long-runnning shows multiple times a year?

How can hardcore fans rewatch a long-runnning shows multiple times a year?

I am just flabbergasted at how people could rewatch stuff as long running as Criminal Minds, Supernatural, and Bonanza more than once a year. Its already difficult enough for me to rewatch a series of nearly 100 episodes (particularly give or take an extra 15-20 eps total for a long running series). I never attempted to rewatch something about 200 episodes like Seinfeld or The Office because its simply time consuming not to mention mentally exhausting.

But some people manage to do it more than once a rewatch a year. Even one rewatch each new season (4X a year total) and in some cases more than that. I know at least one person who watches Xena 8 times a year start to finish and another who does a monthly marathon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as in every new calendar month he starts a re-run despite just finishing it at 30th of last month, starting with episode 1 again at the 1st of an upcoming month and spending his free time watching the rest of the 143 episodes until near the end of the current month-he basically spends every day watching at least 5 episodes every new month from ep 1 to theifnale ep 144).

How are people able to do this? I am had enough difficulty finishing up Charmed for the first today despite finally making it to season 8 last week. I still have Seinfeld to finish which is more in total episode count than Charmed but at least Seinfeld uses the 20 minute episode format unlike Charmed which is 1 hour per episode.

I get doing seasonal rewatches if its a 20 minute episode time limit like say Naruto and Friends. Thats basically 3 episodes per hour and thus your free time is not wasted so much. Something like Supernatural? 1 hour per episode and practically over 300 eps? You are basically spending 2 whole weeks watching Bonanza with that many episodes that are an hour long each. You can be spending more time gaming, learning Russian, and other more active pursuits that help you develop skills for life!

I even can understand a seasonal rewatch for 50 ep anime like Kenichi and miniseries like Shaka Zulu. You can practicallly finish those stuff within 3 days no-problem binging.

But how the hell do people manage to rewatch DBZ, Bleach, and The Cosby show 3-5 times a year, if not every month?!
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