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frydawolff.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Happy to die on this hill.

Severance works because anticipation builds on weekly episodes. It reinforces that binging and full season releases ruined television and writing for TV.

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kylesharing.bsky.social•4 days ago

Seriality! Streaming rediscovered its importance.

vaneis.bsky.social•4 days ago

I hear what you’re saying but I still love spending the weekend watching an entire season.

xanderoconnor.bsky.social•3 days ago

please don’t die, on a hill or in some kind of grassy declivity.

especially for being correct.

merpwashere.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s this sort of logic that makes certain cohorts look at you like you have a third arm. Sometimes waiting, and the attention it demands, is worth it.

frydawolff.bsky.social•4 days ago

You know what else? Monoculture as far as water cooler chats about weekly episodes is a kind of third place community building that also has value. I think we've missed out on that.

bryanrice.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/bryanrice.bsky.social/post/3lkulmoc3sc2v

I agree with this broadly and/but the current era of the internet makes it hard for any show to sustain its monocultural status.

nickpheas.bsky.social•3 days ago

God yes. It should have been obvious from WandaVision that the weekly drip feed and "just what is happening?" made it work.
Dumping ten hours of TV at midnight doesn't make any buzz

frydawolff.bsky.social•4 days ago

*This also applies to White Lotus.

unchi.org•3 days ago

The weekly episode drop absolutely was one of the things that made WandaVision so breathtaking for me.

timkrauss.bsky.social•3 days ago

Even when shows drop all at once I like to take my time in between episodes..to savor the experience and stay steeped in that world a little longer

It's the difference between enjoying and thinking about a show for a few months, or enjoying it in a weekend and then forgetting you even wathed it

mattjohnston.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ruined? Not the correct word, but completely recalculated is something I can agree on. With a full release you can choose how you want to ingest the program, and I’m always down for choice. That being said, there’s an old school feeling I enjoy spending a week talking about possibilities.

trotterk.bsky.social•3 days ago

And you get time to mull it over. Sitting on the bus on the way to work and you think of a connection you’ve not thought of or a potential outcome. Having time to think about where the story may go is so much better than ploughing through it and finding out in a few hours

magess.secretive.name•3 days ago

it's so fun to go to fan groups and see what everyone is saying after a new episode lands!

ahhh the old days...

drbutchermd.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've been saying this in observation that Stranger Things is supposed to be this phenomenon, but it never really seems as part of the zeitgeist as something like Game of Thrones was. People binge at their own pace, but a hit weekly show? Everyone wants to keep up for the conversation.

frydawolff.bsky.social•4 days ago

100000%

https://bsky.app/profile/frydawolff.bsky.social/post/3lkwk33jkh22s

ajrichar.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think this is right, even if I can’t watch every week and need to play catchup. I’m enjoying Yellowjackets more than if all episodes were dumped at once.

pja.bsky.social•4 days ago

Binging is fine for the audience to do but not the right release model

mistyksnow.bsky.social•4 days ago

Weekly episode releases, either 1 episode at a time over even 3 episode chunks is way better than dropping a season all at once.

vortmax.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hope the next season of #Fallout is released like #Severance has been.

schatzkin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Except for those of us who wait until all episodes are up and we binge it

steelmongoose.bsky.social•3 days ago

I reluctantly agree. I think dumping them all at once is better for ME but weekly release is better for the "health" of a show.

mattmiller.bsky.social•3 days ago

agent139.bsky.social•3 days ago

Idk. Almost everyone I know waited for the full season or most of it to be out to start watching... and typically do this with shows that release weekly.

saridder.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wrong

thatwitchmia.bsky.social•4 days ago

you're right and you should say it.

lynnsocal.bsky.social•3 days ago

If a show isn't good when binged, it's not a good show.

I'm tired of someone else deciding the pace at which I'm supposed to watch something. I just wait until all the episodes are released. Some shows I watch in a weekend. Some I watch one or two eps at a time. But it's my call, nobody else's.

powerje.bsky.social•3 days ago

humbly, an awful take

netflix did it right, these weekly releases are trash

reidspice.bsky.social•4 days ago

yeah i agree. it also allows a large group of people to experience the journey of the season together, one week at a time. the severance subreddit was on fire this year.

litedoctor.bsky.social•3 days ago

Certainly, the "water cooler" effect of one episode per week helps build word of mouth and anticipation.

OTOH, Breaking Bad got more popular once seasons 1-3 went to Netflix. Binging gives new fans a chance to catch up.

jamesbenton.bsky.social•3 days ago

Agree. If the show is good, you need/want time to digest each episode. Ponder. Wonder. Connect. Discuss. Otherwise the show makes itself about plot burning rather than idea bathing.

manuelreis.bsky.social•4 days ago

And you won't die alone.

sasquatch47.bsky.social•3 days ago

No, no. You're on solid ground. Episodic TV is modelled on the serialized novel of the 19th century. That's why movies were always the perfect vehicles for short story adaptations but longform TV series were needed to capture the complex character arcs of the novel. Carry on

joeauerbach.bsky.social•4 days ago

It certainly ruins certain types of television.

I think there's programs that work fine on the binge model, but severance is not one of them.

Quirky comedies, kids shows, the best British baking show, I'll binge those and it doesn't change my enjoyment.

tommyz34.bsky.social•4 days ago

The Expanse authors said weekly releases are much better for the health of a show because you end up with two months of buzz vs a week or two.

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