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People bitch about the Netflix two season treatment, but there's something to be said about a show with a solid beginning, middle, and end that can be wrapped up in one to three seasons.
I'm really tired of series that seriously overstay their welcome and can't find it in themselves to write an ending, only to be canceled before they end. What was the point of fucking meandering so much then anyway? Ricky Gervais' version of The Office isn't the most amazing thing in the world, but he knew not to drag it on endlessly like the US version did.
This is even more important for more serious shows that are praised for their writing...
...I'm looking at you, Severance, if you can't wrap it up in the next season or so, I don't really see a point to continue watching.
In the same vein, some shows need to be allowed to die a dignified death. The Simpsons needs to be put out to pasture, Futurama needs to stop being rebooted, and Family Guy should have stayed cancelled the first time.
~~My hot take on streamers is that it's a mostly garbage format to begin with.~~ This is not what OP was talking about.
I think a show that plans for 2 seasons or less is great. Andor would have gotten stale at 5 seasons. Queens Gambit was only 1. We don't need everything to run on forever.
However, that's not Netflix's problem. Their problem is that a show runner doesn't know how long their show will run, so they can't close out storylines correctly. Too many are left with open questions and cliffhangers because they were abruptly cancelled.
I just read an interview with the creator of Andor, and he says that the original plan was to go five seasons, but, during the production of the first season, the massive weight of the production suddenly occurred to him, and he figured he wouldn’t have enough “calories” to get through five seasons. That’s why I got shortened to two.
I definitely want more shows that have a clear ending in sight and a plan to get there, but the problem with Netflix is they don't set out to make a two season show, they set out to make a five or six season show, then kill it at two with loads of dangling threads.
What's a preferable format for tv series?
I took "streamers" as to mean "youtube personalities," not actual, you know, scripted shows. I think the individual talking at the camera is a bad format, and always have. Very few have leveraged it in any meaningfully artistic way, and some of the few who have turned out to be total fucking assholes, like the guy who did Americanface (which is one of the few artistic and well-done one-person-talking-at-a-camera films to this day). I still think Americanface is a pretty good film, but he turned into an anti-trans fucking bigot.
Oh, no. I should adjust that.
Atunshei and Contrapoints have a lot going for them.
Checkmate Lincolnites is YouTube gold.
All this from somebody by the name of snotflicker.
I’m kidding people I’m kidding, the shot was there and I just couldn’t resist taking it. Sorry, man.
*wipes nose with hand, slicks back hair with same hand