The future of TV bingeing and cliffhangers

Cliffhanger fans: As a group we've discussed the effect of bingeing (or marathoning) on our viewership of lengthy TV dramas--using DVDs, streaming sites, or DVRs. You may be interested to hear about new developments in media delivery and consumption, which even more specifically encourage these practices. As The New York Times reports, Netflix will be releasing--at once--all 13 episodes of a new political thriller entitled "House of Cards". The program was produced expressly for Netflix and lacks the usual serial breaks and analepses (recaps/flashbacks). The article ends, however, by claiming, "The traditional TV cliffhanger is far from dead." We shall see...