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Your franlab videos I find relaxing. I zone out and sip my coffee and watch.
One of my big gripes about US series is the number of episodes in a series (season). In the UK we tend to be used to 6 to 12 episodes per series. Well us old timers anyway 🙂
Colony. Stalled after season 3 before there was ever a season 4. So many unanswered questions and unresolved plots, including the main one!
There was an actual science news show called Daily Planet that was on for years and just disappeared with no notice. At this point I think I'm just going to wait until a series has its final season and then weigh my options from there.
Do people keep their subscription while waiting for the next season?
I'm totally with you about there needing to be one platform, or at the very least an open API standard so a single application can aggregate shows from every service into one library.
You've just described why I stopped watching series as they aired. A few years back, yet another series I started on was canceled and I just threw my hands up at the entire game. There's plenty of original, non-series content available on YouTube, Nebula and Curiosity Stream for day to day. If I find out about a series that seems like something I'll really enjoy, I just force myself to wait until the entire series is over so I can watch it on a streaming service. No more permanent cliffhangers for me.
You are not alone, there is something weird going on in what-used-to-be-TV services; and it's more noticed by those of us who were around for broadcast TV. They could afford to champion a show with lower ratings (Star Trek pops to mind) and networks would be more interested in pleasing the viewer.
Trivia: the first show to have a 'closing' episode (rather than just disappearing) was 'Leave it to Beaver'! Yes, the Beav was a trend-setter!
We have a lot of shared interest based on your list (Pennywise is gone?! WTH?!), add to that 'Raised by Wolves'.. so many other great shows that may have not made the 'cost to return' ratio.
Sci Fi is inordinately impacted here, I've noticed; but then I've always known my taste were a little eccentric.
Cheers and thanks!
You might like the Ministry of Time. Its a Spanish show with subtitles and its great and lasts six seasons I think. Well worth a watch and very different.
Totally agreed with Counterpart… haven't watched many of the others mentioned.
It's gotten to a point that I'm not even getting into TV series much anymore… I'm curious about several of them, but I just don't wanna invest time into something that might be cancelled.
Two hard ways of approaching this – you either watch a series after it has already ended, ignore bad reviews of it's season finale, take it for what it is… or you step away from the medium and find something else to spend time with.
I'm constantly shifting from one thing to another when these trends start happening, and I was a huge TV series fan back in the 90s and early 2000s.
I'm not watching any current series, switched completely towards Anime… it's easy to burn out on anime content, but there are still lots of options that is one season only, you watch the story and it closes after 13 to 26 episodes. This is also changing, but I feel it's still a bit more predictable than TV series, particularly now that they are coming in droves and getting cancelled left and right.
And then there are games that for the most part are still a closed package… there are sequels but they are usually not necessary to follow, one story is still mostly contained in one game.
I didn't even watch Cowboy Bebop live action… the original is perfect by itself for me. xD Same thing for Ghost in the Shell, the older animated movies and TV series were enough.
We get tempted to check new stuff because everyone is talking about it, and we kinda wanna participate, but for me the strategy of ignoring all that, looking into older completed works, then watching, reading, playing or whatever those without the constant noise around has been just working better.
It fits my personally of watching these things better. I wanna be surprised, amused, and think about them by myself, and only after a self reflection and an attempt in understanding the thing, then I wanna talk about it and discuss… so it ends up if I watch something while it's being released, it cannot work that way.
In tune with what Fran is saying, American TV shows already switched everything about them – how they are structured, how it's funded, the scheduling, production… it's all already adapted to the streaming model. It makes it much more dynamic, but also beholden to a lot of different points like ratings, engagement, etc.
I'm not saying that this is bad per se, but it's different. I'm almost impossible to have a complete TV series that becomes a cult classic, or niche classic these days, because cult classics all get cut short for lack of audience. It's all walking towards mainstream and mainstream alone, the tragedy of the commons, fueled by late stage capitalism.
Anime on the other hand is slowly shifting models, but they are mostly tied to an old TV model that still didn't fully change. This is both good in terms of having full seasons that are going to air no matter what, but it's also bad because it's a model that has side effects of paying people working in the industry very badly… it's unique to the anime industry and most people don't fully understand it, funding based on committees, where broadcasters take the risk of a given title bombing by having a fixed pay model for studios.
This is why it's rare for anime shows to abruptly end even when they are super super bad… they are funded for an entire season, no matter how awry things go. Which also create this effect that sometimes you get shows that towards the end the quality drops drastically and it gets all f'd up… because they need to end the show one way or another no matter what disaster happened on the way there. xD
Anyways, good topic Fran… don't mind talking about these things every now and then!
Or how about a show that does end (early or later) that is a great show then ends so horrible that you question why you even watched it in the first place! (Blakes Seven, Person Of Interest, lost…)
Oh I do not to Cable TV, or any of the TV anything channels, the TV AD's make my Brain Puke, and Mess up what I liked to Watch…
I will stick with what Pops up on Soap2Day..I get to Chose what to Binge watch.. I need to Watch the Whole Season in one Sit …
Even when it only half a season run..
So much for ars gratia artis. These days its more like art for profit's sake.
Lovecraft country was a heartbreaker. It's still great to watch but being left on cliffhangers is a hard bummer.
Can't wait for Severance season 2.
Couldn't agree more with all you said. My gosh, Vinyl was so great, it could have been a movie, one of my fav of all time and not just because of the first episode with the Scorcese's touch, all the others have that 70' colour, brilliant actors, great sound, doubles from Bowie, Led Zep, Andy Warhol, …. unfortunately maybe not the taste for the vast majority of those streaming service audience. Anyway glad Im' not alone to regret Vinyl, Counterpart, Berlin Station… where actors and dialogues are lifting the show and not the special effects !