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DuckHairback
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10 Nov 2023, 10:58 am

That's all I want to say really. I miss 20+ episode seasons of TV shows. Everything is 8 -12 episodes now apparently thanks to streaming. It's not enough.

In the UK, six episodes was pretty standard because shows tended to be written by a single writer, two at most. Then we got US tv where the 'writers room' system allowed for these epically long seasons. Now it's been taken away again.


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17 Nov 2023, 9:27 pm

Long series format was good in the television days, reliable weekly releases keep the viewers interest

I like the shorter seasons on streaming because it's easier to binge. Of course there are some shows I wish it was longer, but even in the old days each season had about 8-12 good epsidoes with the rest being taken up by fillers



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17 Nov 2023, 11:00 pm

You should watch The X-Files. The seasons are crazy long.



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18 Nov 2023, 12:18 am

There was a writers' strike for most of last year.


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18 Nov 2023, 1:02 am

Supernatural, 15 seasons, 22-23 episodes a season. Keeps me going.