The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday when it will wind up in the Saturday papers which if you were readers then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.
I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.