To plow through the remaining episodes of a show you don’t like, just to get it over with.

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I’m lookin’ at you, Daredevil.

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NB: I posted this word earlier today… but my suspicions were that I wasn’t the only person to come up with this phrase. I was correct. It turns out that Adam Sternbergh (good writer) over at Vulture wrote a piece last year about this very thing – he even sourced this exact term on Twitter to describe it.

I did not see that post… nor did I see the tweet from the woman who was the first to use the phrase “purge watch.”

I came up with this word on my own, but I can’t really claim to own it. In all fairness: they beat me to it.

But I’m going to post this entry anyway.

Firstly, because I genuinely like the word, and am proud of having thought of it (second).

And secondly, because I just can’t get over the fact that at least three other human beings, completely remote from one another, never having met, and certainly never to meet, all came to the exact same conclusion about the exact same show… and used the exact same term to describe it.

Isn’t that delightful?

So I’m posting this word to celebrate this near-magical concatenation of events, brought together by a love of language, and a shared appreciation for just how mind-numbingly laborious we find Daredevil to be.

Except for Jon Bernthal. He’s really wonderful this season.

Nice job, Jon.