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I've started to get fatigue with the style of a lot of NetFlix shows. They're not just designed to be binged on, the plot only exists if you binge on it! Inst
by da_chicken 8y ago
I've started to get fatigue with the style of a lot of NetFlix shows. They're not just designed to be binged on, the plot only exists if you binge on it! Instead of having one plot every episode, most series seems to have one plot every season and then they draaaaaaaw that shit out like it's you're last Christmas cookie before the New Years' diet.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYup. After being burned on this, I avoid Netflix-made shows altogether. I love binging interesting shows. I hate being dragged into binging by some screnwriting dark patterns.
- icebraining 8y agoI don't get your complaint, season-long plots have always been common (outside of comedy shows). That's why the cliffhanger trope worked!
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSeason-long plots are awesome, I personally much prefer shows with a long story arc than ones in which episodes can be watched in any order. The complaint here is different though. Netflix-made shows seem to be deliberately designed so that all plot subpoints get dragged through the entire season. Each episode will introduce something, later episodes will occasionally remind you of it, but you have to wait 'till the very end for everything to be simultaneously resolved. Basically, what would be a classical story arc gets stretched in a way that 90% of its mass falls into the last episode. (And then the resolution turns out to be meh, and you end up wondering why did you just waste 10 hours of your life on this show. It's quite like modern journalism - a bit of clickbait at the beginning, then a long article giving exactly zero useful information, and then a meaningless conclusion at the end.)