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Your third paragraph is hardly unique to Netflix, all scripted serialized dramas seem to suffer this problem these days.
by fullshark 5y ago
Your third paragraph is hardly unique to Netflix, all scripted serialized dramas seem to suffer this problem these days.
- ghostly_s 5y agoMost? Maybe. Certainly not all.
- ahartmetz 5y agoI've become a little tired of series with continuous plots at this point. It's really hard to create content for so many episodes that isn't repetitive, irrelevant to the main story, or hard to believe because of the piling up of coincidences. Then you often have implausible character changes and other typical series-but-not-movies problems piling up. It's an art form that seems very difficult to get right, and so it usually goes wrong.
- imbnwa 5y agoBBC gets this right, only as many episodes as necessary.
- pixxel 5y agoBritish TV in general gets it right and always has. 6 episodes per season, 2-4 seasons. Ricky Gervais’ The Office UK is a prime example, 14 episodes. The US version has 188.
- Fnoord 5y agoLess is more. No filler content. GoT could have stopped 2-3 seasons before it did and I'd been fine. Star Wars not needed episode 1 and onward. The old ones were neat as they were (personally apart from that I only liked the recent movie which took place between 3 and 4, and the first season (!!) of Mando). Its like meeting your heroes: don't! Same with books. I read the The Thrawn Trilogy. It was great. I don't want a comic about it or a movie about it; I leave the memory as is. There's a remake of the brilliant series Utopia (orig. by Ch 4) and I am not looking forward to it either for the same reason. Then again, perhaps all these reboots are not aimed for me but for people who did not see the orig.
- imbnwa 5y agoOh, Amazon remade Utopia stateside and it was just rubbish next to the BBC series