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homerjacksons · 7 months ago

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It’s really funny to me how often I see people bemoaning the “short series” (10 episodes) thing with streaming.

Like…I grew up on British and Aus tv. Aside from soaps, tv shows are rarely longer than 10 eps a series 😂

I personally much prefer a short series with a contained story and fleshed out characters than 24 episodes of largely standalone stories with small connections and details that often get forgotten seasons later. Often (not always) I find this format of TV has LESS overall character development for the sake of longevity

#which isn’t to say I haven’t enjoyed them #just…so much easier to fall out of love with shows like that for me #i agree that streaming has drastically changed the way we interact with media #because bingeing instead of weekly takes away all that anticipation and theorising and…the shit that half of fandom is built on #BUT a good show will draw people into its depths regardless #and I feel like the bigger issue is there’s TOO MUCH and a lot of it is fairly average #when we had limited choice we made do #but it’s so easy to move on to the next thing when you finish bingeing an average show #anyway not half my unintended essay is in the tags oops bye

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