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Different strokes I guess; I thought Severance was great. I didn't even notice the sequences you're describing, but I guess in hindsight they added flavor/gave

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  Severance does not have the drunk/high sequences, but it was just crazy slow for me. I might also just be an atypical watcher, but it still feels like a lot of shows/movies are a lot longer than they used to be when I was a kid, and yet the extra minutes do not give me any extra enjoyment. Or maybe I am just getting old and turning into my dad.
  • ghaff 5y ago
    What is almost certainly true is that a lot of shows are more serialized than when you were a kid given that serial was mostly bad for a number of reasons in the broadcast era. So most shows were pretty much 30-60 self-contained minutes with relatively little prior context needed. If you're going to tell a story over 8 hours or even several seasons, various aspects of the pace are going to be a lot slower.
  • onionisafruit 5y ago
    > it still feels like a lot of shows/movies are a lot longer than they used to be when I was a kid When I was a kid tv shows typically had 22 episodes per season. Flight Attendant wouldn’t have been made back then, but if it was it would have had much more filler. More likely it would have been about a flight attendant who is a secret CIA agent and defeats a different commie every episode.