As is the opinion of most of the post here. In my opinion I miss the filler episodes because they were at least new content and filled the role this article is suggesting.

Yes I can remember lots of shows that were cancled quickly like manamal and tales of the gold monkey. However netfilx recently has been especially brutal lately AND there was still a lot of new content on all the networks as they filled prime time with lots of shows. 

I’d say that’s the article’s point - not everything needs to be prestige television. Gen Z streams the shit out of Friends because its themes of finding yourself in early life are universal, and the show does indeed have comforting rhythms. And it IS funny, unless you need all of your comedy to be George Carlin.  It’s…

Honestly, I’d settle for 13 episode seasons at this point, because even those seem to be getting rarer, with a lot of series just doing ten or eight. But 13 has always felt like a nice, sweet spot. . Enough to where you really feel like you’re getting scope and breadth, but not too many that you feel like they’re…

I feel like people forget (or were just too young to experience) how pretty much all of the best episodes of the X-Files were the standalone episodes. Home. Squeeze & Tooms. Ice. Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose. Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. The Post-Modern Prometheus. Bad Blood.

Even if not every episode was a winner, the good ones hit more than they missed. And, more importantly, it was there every week during the TV season, year after year. There’s value in that, I think. 

Looks like I will be part of the very few that agree with you. I have been saying this for months, and louder since the passing of tv god Normal Lear.

I wonder if it’s because that length doesn’t give you time to relax/breathe so each of those episodes takes up a bunch of emotional bandwidth. Everything is important in seasons that short. Well, for the most part, I think Strange New Worlds does a good job of maintaining a mostly episodic feel in short seasons.

And to think for a small portion of the $300 million spent on Citadel, they could have given The Expanse a proper, 10-12 episode final season.

The real win for me is that I play a bunch of stuff that I would never have bought on the Steam store. And I’ve found a bunch of beautiful gems of games in doing so.

There are definitely stretches where there’s nothing new and I use it less.  But it’s never pushed me to the point of cancellation so far, I’m finishing…

One of the problems with Netflix being the streaming leader is how their story design influences other platforms. Serialized tv did not used to be this transparent. The idea of being a multi-hour movie was especially harmful to superhero shows, robbing the medium of its strength to be more like comic book issues.…

I like to take my time too, especially with open-world games, which bring out the completionist in me. It can be a double edged sword, because I still have a limited amount of playtime, so open-worlds tend to be the games that can take half a year for me to finish. I kind of dread that now, and openly embrace shorter…

Yeah, I’ve fallen out of favor with a lot of serialized TV, because the popular design seems to be parcel out one storyline over a season’s time, which means there’s a lot of wheel-spinning (and maybe some inconsequential side-plots) in between the start of a season and the end of a season.  I don’t binge often,…

I mean, the Playstation *does* have a GamePass-esque service—Playstation Plus Premium*—though I’ve never used, so I couldn’t tell how it stacks up.

You people are all my favorites. Keep carrying that torch.

My replacement Kang choice is Babs Olusanmokun.

Cast Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Kang. It seemed they were leading into her being a Kang variant with the Loki S2 plotline anyway.

Right? As much as I love this series (and Skarsgard) they’ve set themselves a difficult task. Probably the best approach is going to be something that leans into the themes and tone but doesn’t try to replicate the inner monologue; this is filmic, not prose. The worry is that even if it’s really, really good, it won’t…

I love Murderbot, but yeah, it’ll be interesting to see if it translates to TV. So much of the joy is Murderbot calculating threat assessment, exit strategies, impact velocities, how to pretend to be human, etc. while watching a soap opera to relax themself.