TV Series Frustrations

Kind of wish they would finish TV show series first before branching off into something that nobody asked for.

Can't they start making 1 season tv shows then? I mean, clearly they can't commit, at least make only one season with an ending!

Netflix needs it bcoz they are making lots of crappy serial nowadays...quantity != Quality

I agree. I have recently been watching a lot of Star Trek and Mission Impossible. Two shows where you can watch one episode and be done with it until the next time.I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one getting really annoyed with the style with which most shows are made these days. I understand that there are good things about having a continuous storyline, and the last season of DS9 shows that it does work. But all shows don't have to be that way.

I don't think US series are too long. I think they're just badly planned. I prefer the approach you see in anime were a show is usually contained in a single season. If the show does really well they make another show that is effectively the next season. If it does poorly any fans it did get aren't left with an unfinished product.For a planned multi season story arc Babylon 5 is the best example I can think of. The story arc was planned from the beginning and they stuck to the

I watch tv shows more than pretty much anyone I know and lately I don't even bother watching a show unless it already has several seasons. So this is a terrible business decision. I mean there's a reason "binging" because a phenomenon. I'm not going to binge a show with one season.Worst news I got from this article was that The Dark Crystal got cancelled. I was looking forward to more shows so I could check it out, guess I never will now.

The problem with American TV is that almost everything is unbounded. Some shows manage to keep things going. Others jump the shark.It’s not that having 10 seasons is bad. But many shows tell the story they wanted to tell in much less time. At which point you should just stop.Some formats are interesting though like American Horror Story. It’s more like an anthology. Different story each season. Some actors might return with different roles.Dr Who is also interesting since the mechanism

Multi-season series rarely work these days. They will be either cancelled too early (e.g. 1899), or closed/cancelled too late (e.g. Walking Dead). Both are disrespectful to the time the viewer spent on the series.Limited series is the future.

Netflix's problem is more that the intriguing series never get a chance to go on too long and get axed after one or two seasons. Longer running shows, like Stranger Things, are the outlier.

I think people are burned out by prestige TVThe market is flooded and there’s only so many complicated series people can keep track of at one time. It’s like trying to read a dozen book series at the same time.Years ago with shows like game of thrones, the market was more sustainable. A single show could justify a high budget and dominate cultural discussions for a while. Now the market is so streaming forward and swamped by streaming services people can’t keep up. It’s just becoming work