Except when, for some reasons, the recent trend is to release an episode per week even though they have all of them filmed and could just drop a whole season.
As a binge watcher, this irks me to no end; I usually end up delaying watching episode 1 until everything is released, and in the process forget about the show for half a year or something, at which point there's hardly any conversation happening about it anymore.
As I explained, that model can permit a binge of content which grants heavy context carryover.