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Opinion: Small screen, big investment: TV episodes have become way too long (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/television@piefed.social
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[–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most shows like that though didn't "cram" much into most of their episodes though. They were often at least partially episodically designed where the cast just solved a weekly crime, or case or slayed some monster and then soft-reset at the end with only small effects to the wider season/series arc.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I miss episodic/monster of the week shows. Not ever single damn show needs to be serialised.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well to each their own, but a serialised show doesn't really work elongated out to 20 episodes a season. Unless it's a really long book series adaptation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Babylon 5 did it pretty well. One complete story, told across 5 seasons of 22 episodes each. Some of the episodes which I thought were filler on first watch turned out to involve critical plot elements in later seasons. I want to say seasons 2-4 were really tightly focused. Season 5 kinda slowed down, mostly because season 4 was written to be a finale in case they got canceled.

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