Do you agree with the sentiment that current tv seasons are too short/expensive?

[Cloutius Maximus]

I don't mean the cost of streaming services, I mean these 6-8 episode $100 million dollar and over budget, 3 years between season shows that have taken over the market.

Seeing more folks straight up say they want more Parks and Recreation and 24 and less Severance/House of the Dragon/Euphoria type shows. People also want shows that are less serialized because when shows are 3 years apart you have to watch a recap video or rewatch the whole season to remember what's going on.



I get what they are saying. Comedy shows have suffered the most from this shift. Wouldn't mind something in the middle i.e. 12-15 episode seasons that take on some cues from prestige tv (i.e. better cinemotography) without the OD budgets that make it feel like an 8 hour movie.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

The cost is irrelevant to me but the seasons are too short. 8 is insufficient. Lower is no where near enough to tell a story. At that point make a movie. And the split season shyt does not help.

 

[ciubaca]

Someone is pocketing some of that money. No way movies/series have to cost so much. I mean 9 out of 10 big budget movies are not making a profit but they keep making them.
And yes, series are to short... when i heard that the new Got spinoff is gonna be 6 30 min episodes

 

[Primetime]

Funny enough, a decade ago people were complaining that those Marvel netflix shows dragged on for too long/needed to be shorter

To me, a show like Castlevania did it right. From 2017-2021: 4 seasons, 32 episodes. Concise, efficient storytelling, consistent time table.

Whereas a show like Arcane fumbled. From 2021-2024: 2 seasons, 18 episodes. Rushed, crammed competing storylines after a 3-year gap.

To use a none animation example, Alice in Borderline seasons 1 and 2 were perfection.
-Season 1: 8 episodes, 2020.
-Season 2: 8 episodes, 2022.

Dense hour-long episodes that told an engaging story and didn’t overstay its welcome. They should’ve left it there instead of the money grab s3.

 

[Nero Christ]

A season should be as long as it needs to be to properly tell the story. If that's 4 episodes, then it's 4 episodes...if it's 12, then it's 12.

 

[malbaker86]

I dont mind short seasons as long as they’re every year. If you’re going to do every other year with no spin off in between….

 

[Jmare007]

Yeah, the main issue is the time in between seasons. Taking 2-3 years for 8 episodes is insane. Specially when a lot of the time, it feels like a couple of eps are stretched out to fill in a quota.

I think the only new series that pulled it off was Andor, and that was mainly because they had a "4 movies in a season" structure. To the point it felt you were being gifted a ton of content with elite writing and great cinematography and sound design.

 

[thenatural]

It's the large break between seasons. The pandemic disrupted everything, but The Boys taking almost seven years to air 40 episodes is asinine. I never watched Stranger Things but I've heard multiple jokes about the kids' ages. I'm a fan of shorter seasons, and I'm blown that streaming services are breaking up single seasons. I give Peacemaker an out because Gunn's role changed within DC Studios. But if that was the product of a three year break without having to focus on a larger idea, I'd say that show was a money laundering operation.

 

[Diunx]

Just binged House of Guinnes today(we in the middle of a storm)

shyt ends in a cliffhanger, they really expect people to be like "can't wait to see what happens next...in 3 years" For what I see online this shyt is actually pissing people off, its not like the old days when a new season would start ins couple of months

 

[Lhark]

The length isn't the problem to me, I used to love those Sherlock/Luther era british shows. Its the waiting 2-3+ years between seasons that irks me.

 

[Robbie3000]

12-13 episodes a season like Sopranos/breaking Bad is perfect.

24 episode TV network formats are a no for me.

 

[voltronblack]

The length isn't the problem to me, I used to love those Sherlock/Luther era british shows. Its the waiting 2-3+ years between seasons that irks me.

were not Luther and Sherlock the same? I think Luther was worse because they would drop like three episodes in the later seasons.

 

[Cladyclad]

Tv shows are probably the only thing we can agree on that is light years better than 20 years ago

nicole Kidman has been on like 8 different tv shows and all were successful

 

[Trips]

Really depends on the type of show you're watching. These streaming shows that have 8 or less episodes and then disappear for years. Are super frustrating. But, then you're run of the mill sitcoms/procedural shows like SVU, or Modern Family type shyt. Maybe doesn't always need 22-24 episodes. There were definitely shows I was trying to watch just because I missed them in their original run and I just didn't want to do 20+ hour long episodes a season.

I think when HBO/Netflix give a show a solid 10 episodes to tell their story it's hard to beat. I just wish both would stop these prolonged layoffs between seasons. That list of the number of shows that started and ended in the time since Stranger Things debuted on Netflix and to just now be in their 5th season is fukkin disgusting.

 

[FlyRy]

8-10 eps is great for me. i even love a good 6er. too much bloat when it's longer.