10-26-2023, 12:57 AM
I think streaming has given "TV shows" an identity crisis. Its as if they don't quite know what they want these things to be. Are they traditional TV shows? Are they more like the tv mini-series of old? Are they just movies made a little longer and chopped up into several pieces?
While its cool that they spend a fortune on these things and make look as high quality as movies, rarely do they give me the long term immersion that I get from traditional TV show. The episodes are too short, there are too few episodes per season, and the shows don't go on for very many seasons.
Whether in an hour long drama or a half hour sitcom, a successful TV show would give me up to 24 episodes a year, and sometimes go on for decades. Okay, so some of them eventually might have become less consistently good, because every episode can't be great... what they did do for me was allow me to spend a huge amount of time in the world of the show to live with its characters. With these short Disney shows I don't even feel compelled to rewatch them.
While its cool that they spend a fortune on these things and make look as high quality as movies, rarely do they give me the long term immersion that I get from traditional TV show. The episodes are too short, there are too few episodes per season, and the shows don't go on for very many seasons.
Whether in an hour long drama or a half hour sitcom, a successful TV show would give me up to 24 episodes a year, and sometimes go on for decades. Okay, so some of them eventually might have become less consistently good, because every episode can't be great... what they did do for me was allow me to spend a huge amount of time in the world of the show to live with its characters. With these short Disney shows I don't even feel compelled to rewatch them.