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I agree completely, I even wish seasons were shorter. Very often the start and end to a season is strong, but the middle is filler.

• filoleg 7y ago
  That's how I feel about Silicon Valley (the TV show), despite liking it a lot. It had a strong story in season 1 (and somewhat 2), and it has plenty of great jokes and relevant commentary. However, I cannot recall anything about the overall storyline past season 2 at all, because the rest of the seasons follow the structure of: episode 1: set up the direction for some conflict/direction of the season. episode 2 - episode n-1: a bunch of filler material with wild movements and swaps with no particular direction. episode n: after all the wild moves, the characters and the story ended up back in pretty much the exact same place where it started. If you care just about the story, you can legitimately skip all seasons after 2 and jump straight into the newest one without missing out on any actual story development, minus some minor references and newer characters. Which is a shame, because of how strong and directed the story in season 1 was.