IMO it wouldn’t be as bad if they released one episode a week across a year instead of dropping a scant 10 episode season at once for people to binge and forget
And if season two weren’t the same thing, just 28 months after anybody stopped paying attention.
Many shows would do well with a weekly release and don’t get it. Then there are other shows where the episode breaks are narratively arbitrary, so not being able to binge leaves the audience with a bad taste in their mouths. Different shows can benefit from different strategies, but the streamers mostly mismanage things.
I hate when they do that though, it feels like they do it to make it so you have to pay more months of subscription to watch the same content.
To me the issue is they need to either schedule limited series or multiple seasons up front. The two plus year lead times are just too long.
I hate getting invested in a show like Kai’s just to find out a copies weeks later they mismarketed it and now it’s gone forever.
I get that if they ran it weekly it had more time to generate buzz, but really by the time I watched the first episode they cancelled it a week later. That window is way too quick, especially because buzz is a very bursty thing to happen.
Also when watching The Last Of Us S2 I found I stopped watching when it got frustrating and forgot to come back after, whereas with a binge I’d push through.
IMO it wouldn’t be as bad if they released one episode a week across a year instead of dropping a scant 10 episode season at once for people to binge and forget
And if season two weren’t the same thing, just 28 months after anybody stopped paying attention.
Many shows would do well with a weekly release and don’t get it. Then there are other shows where the episode breaks are narratively arbitrary, so not being able to binge leaves the audience with a bad taste in their mouths. Different shows can benefit from different strategies, but the streamers mostly mismanage things.
I hate when they do that though, it feels like they do it to make it so you have to pay more months of subscription to watch the same content.
To me the issue is they need to either schedule limited series or multiple seasons up front. The two plus year lead times are just too long.
I hate getting invested in a show like Kai’s just to find out a copies weeks later they mismarketed it and now it’s gone forever.
I get that if they ran it weekly it had more time to generate buzz, but really by the time I watched the first episode they cancelled it a week later. That window is way too quick, especially because buzz is a very bursty thing to happen.
Also when watching The Last Of Us S2 I found I stopped watching when it got frustrating and forgot to come back after, whereas with a binge I’d push through.