"Power-Watching TV"

This weekend the Boston Globe ran an article, Power-Watching TV, which gave a title to what I have been doing: powering through seasons of television in a matter of days. The article writes about this trend as an effect of the Writer's Strike (now 3 months long, but coming to an end this week? Dare I type it?). It seems people have chosen to take the chance provided by weeks of reruns to catch up on years of shows they didn't never had time for. Recommendations from both friends and strangers... including Netflix.
I am not exempt from this trend, it looks like. Although, I must say, I began power-watching TV as soon as shows were released on DVD, years ago. Being in college, I had no TV - only my computer's DVD drive. Free time did not usually include primetime television hours, and it became difficult to keep up with any programs from week to week, even if I decided to trek down to my dorm's common room. The convenience of watching shows at my own leisure, the absence of commercials, and the appeal of back-to-back episodes (what will happen next??) were all positives.
The Writer's Strike, and perhaps my post-college unemployment, merely gave me increased amounts of time and enthusiasm for shows of the past, and shows that might possibly return at the end of the Strike.