Binge-watching a show makes you feel like you're in the 'thick' of the characters' situations including getting a feel for their individual strengths and weaknesses that make them who they are and why they choose certain paths of actions. Doing so, you grow in empathy or disgust of them more quickly because you have far fewer interruptions than if you were watching one episode each week. That is the way it was for me watching "Travelers" that is currently on Netflix. The show ran from 2016-2018 (34 episodes total) and has an interesting premise. That premise is that a super AI from a distant future monitors all actions/non-actions in the then current time as it tries to save humanity. (As you might imagine, things are not going well for humans in the future.) That said, the AI has the ability to transfer the consciousness of a being in the future to a person in the then current time--at the instant just before that person is about to die. Those sent, ...