Episodes of The Bear, Stranger Things and Lena Dunham’s new show Too Much are stretching the limits of television and reducing our enjoyment in the process
Well to each their own, but a serialised show doesn’t really work elongated out to 20 episodes a season. Unless it’s a really long book series adaptation.
Yes, I know, you would have to write a completely different show to do something episodic? I didn’t even say anything about number of episodes, I just want more monster of the week style stuff!
Babylon 5 did it pretty well. One complete story, told across 5 seasons of 22 episodes each. Some of the episodes which I thought were filler on first watch turned out to involve critical plot elements in later seasons. I want to say seasons 2-4 were really tightly focused. Season 5 kinda slowed down, mostly because season 4 was written to be a finale in case they got canceled.
Yeah, I miss episodic/monster of the week shows. Not ever single damn show needs to be serialised.
Well to each their own, but a serialised show doesn’t really work elongated out to 20 episodes a season. Unless it’s a really long book series adaptation.
Yes, I know, you would have to write a completely different show to do something episodic? I didn’t even say anything about number of episodes, I just want more monster of the week style stuff!
Babylon 5 did it pretty well. One complete story, told across 5 seasons of 22 episodes each. Some of the episodes which I thought were filler on first watch turned out to involve critical plot elements in later seasons. I want to say seasons 2-4 were really tightly focused. Season 5 kinda slowed down, mostly because season 4 was written to be a finale in case they got canceled.