42% of viewers admit they forget major plot points by the next season according to a study I saw last year on Reddit. Your brain actually works BETTER when you binge because you keep the whole story fresh in your head instead of forgetting little things between weeks. I watched every episode of Breaking Bad in 4 days and I can still remember details from season 1 perfectly two years later. The emotional punch hits way harder when you're fully immersed in the world without real life breaking in between episodes. Spacing it out just means you spend half the next episode trying to remember who THAT character was or what happened before.