I can’t remember what amazon show it was, but the showrunner said the exact same thing you did. People initially blamed amazon for it, but the showrunner finally spoke up and confirmed he wants people to think (and talk to their friends about it) between episodes, to keep the hype going.

One of the best things about this streaming era is that some providers are starting to eschew solid time formats for shows.

Which is sad that just as directors like Patty Jenkins (WW) and Gina Prince-bythewood (The Old Guard, Love and Basketball) pointed out that female directors are not only paid less but given fewer chances to work, the crew behind the critically reviled Antebellum quickly fail up into another project.

If Mando isn’t proof that the weekly release, streaming or otherwise, is how you capture the cultural zeitgeist, I don’t know what is. There is just no way Mando becomes this big a phenomenon if people don’t get to marinate on each episode and talk about it week to week, Game of Thrones style. That just doesn’t happen…

Honestly, a lot of the Netflix Marvel shows could have used the non-format format.  There always seemed to be a few episodes a season that suffered from needing to kill time. 

I’m liking the new ‘non-format’ format. It’s allowing the story to drive the runtime instead of filling the plots with unnecessary diversions. Sometimes the story takes longer and sometimes it can be told more concisely, leading to a great ending that would have been lost if the eps were ‘padded’.

WandaVision reportedly runs six hours across at least nine episodes, which works out to 40 minutes per episode. I would expect that to fluctuate like The Mandalorian, but I would guess the early episodes will match half-hour TV sitcoms and will get longer as we move away from that format.

I think most streaming services are learning that you don’t have to declare a format. A half hour show is about 22 minutes and an hour show is double that when you take the commercials out. Mandalorian episodes run 32 to 54 minutes and don’t have traditional act breaks every 7 - 12 minutes like clockwork.

I won’t lie, I was hoping for more teenage Groot in the new Thor movie.

each episode will be a 10 millisecond multidimensional flashback in our consciousness.

I love that run! 

In conversation with Emmy Magazine (via Comic Book), Kevin Feige revealed the She-Hulk series at Disney+ will be “a half-hour, legal comedy” something” Marvel Studios “has never done before.”

Yeah, I’m just continually flabbergasted by what I see people wanting from Star Wars lol.

Which would fit in my eyes as she’s always reminded me of Natalie Portman, who played the mother, so who better to play the daughter.

I think it’s simply a casualty of the digital age. All that matters is being first. Not being right or anything like that, just first. Not that that portion applies here. But, the other equally important thing that is also like caused by the rush to be first - is proofreading isn’t just a lost art, I think it’s dead.…

Seeing as how the article made this mistake and also has the lead actress’s name misspelled in the title, yeah, they should be called out for mistakes.

Agreed.

Wait, how do we know it's an alternative future when the future hasn't happened yet?

There’s also the fact - that I’ve rarely seen mentioned - that you’re using a dead person likeness without the million decisions , both intentional and subconscious, that come into acting. So even when eventually the effects become completely unnoticeable (and it will happen) you either are animating a ghost or using…

“Helming” means “directing”, I don’t know what you think it means.