It's amazing how many people of a certain age had that experience with The Four Seasons as a kid. I remember it was a movie on HBO all the time when we first got cable and because it was PG, it was one of the few films I was allowed to watch. I got pneumonia and spent 4 weeks in bed and I must have watch The Four Seasons a dozen times.
I don’t have trouble keeping up, but I REALLY wish they would release before 9 PM ET so that I have a fighting chance of getting to sleep at a reasonable time.
Same, I still have only had time to watch the first episode of the new season. There’s just not enough time in the day, especially when your spouse would rather watch anything else.
The release schedule is and for me. A dad with a day job. I love the show but barely watch 3 hours of tv a week. And then by the time I’m caught up there’s 3 more. I don’t feel I can read reviews or have discussions because I’m behind and everyone is at different places.
One episode a week! Let buzz grow and people might want to engage in those convos and watch week to week.
Selfishly, I think the folks who prefer to binge can wait til it’s all out. Cater to us week to week watchers!
If by "having trouble keeping up with Andor" you mean "haven't started watching it yet", then yes, I fall into that category!
My son liked season 1 and wants to watch with us. But school is still in session, and Little League has started, so we haven't had time to all sit down and watch. Just trying to avoid spoilers until we can get to it.
I'm having trouble keeping up with everything. I need to finish the last two episodes of Dark Winds and haven't started Andor, which I think I'll leave it to watch all together when it's done. Reason: Playoffs. The Knicks x Pistons game yesterday was incredible! Then there was the Pacers game, the Lakers game, the Clippers game...this year, it feels like every game in this first round is a banger!
I started Dark Winds. I have one episode left of the first season & I’m enjoying it for the most part, but some of the acting is so… bad, it’s hard to focus on the story. (Obv, ZM is wonderful) Does it get better?
Same! Between the shows already on air, the start of baseball season, and round 1 of the nba playoffs (where both my team and my husband’s team are in)….there’s just so much going on.
We are waiting to start Hacks after Gemstones ends, and will watch The Rehearsal and Andor probably in June when the influx of new shows/seasons quiets and the playoffs aren’t on every night.
He’s rightfully going to remembered for his tv career first, but Alan Alda has had memorable roles on the big screen. I wish also he hadn’t stopped directing movies.
Loved (and still love) THE FOUR SEASONS. Could be an interesting series...but haven't we seen this a dozen times before--I'm especially thinking of THIS IS US?
Enjoying ANDOR, it's actually making a lot more sense to me this season, and I don't mind the wait or the "stretching out" of the time between episodes, as it gives me something to look forward to and it's not over too fast (doing the same thing with HANDSMAID'S TALE this last season).
I saw The Four Seasons in the theater at age 11, and I loved it. I adored Carol Burnett back then, and I wanted to see her in everything. And given her recent acting gigs, I wasn’t the only Gen Xer who felt that way.
I wish Disney were releasing one episode per week.
To the extent there is a cultural conversation, it will be about groups of three episodes, and if you don’t watch all three in the first day or two those episodes are available, then the conversation will be over by the time you’re in a position to participate.
If you want to have 2+ hours of content released all at once, focusing on a specific set of events that happen a year apart from what you released last time or will release next time, it seems like you want to be releasing four movies, not a television season.
Loved The Four Seasons film and have watched it pretty regularly over the years. I've seen the first four episodes of the new series which I found very enjoyable and true to the spirit of the original.
I’ve been binging all 3 Andor eps on Tues and Wed. Love the show. (But do agree with you that the Mon Mothma scenes in the first batch were incredibly drawn out – I was so bored by all the wedding stuff.)
One quick comment: I hate to be a prude but the sex and nudity on Hacks is really unnecessary. The sex scene last season added nothing to the story. At least this season's was kind funny. Not against sex and nudity, just don't see the point on Hacks.
These condensed seasons of Andor led me to wonder how S1 would have worked had it been only three episodes (Gilroy had to have jettisoned multiple subplots, characters, and entire arcs from his original concepts for S2-S5).
SPOILERS FOR S1: The strongest episodes of S1 are the big heist and the prison eps but Marva's funeral at the end of the series is likely something they couldn't lose, and the prison eps don't impact the story moving forward. I'd guess they'd explain Cassian's "origin" via a couple quick scenes or some exposition, focus on Luthen recruiting Cassian for a much faster paced, less character-driven heist, and then work the Marva funeral/rebellion on Ferrix into the third ep. They'd jettison much of Syril's back story/setup and condense his "romance" with Dedra down significantly. END SPOILERS.
It would be a much different show without the rich character development of S1. We'll never know if S2-5 would have worked as planned or if the show would have fallen into the many potential traps of trying to extend a story like this that far. Gilroy's approach to showrunning seems to be a bit unique (according to him, they didn't even have writers on set for either season), so the potential for things to go awry might be there in longer seasons.
This is a bit of an off the wall comment but sort of tangentially related because it is regarding Rolling Stone’s former movie critic, Peter Travers, whose movie and TV reviews I still enjoy reading over at his ABC News / GMA hub. He used to post two reviews every Friday like clockwork until a couple of weeks ago. This is the third consecutive Friday with no reviews. Does anyone know where Travers went or if he is coming back?
It's amazing how many people of a certain age had that experience with The Four Seasons as a kid. I remember it was a movie on HBO all the time when we first got cable and because it was PG, it was one of the few films I was allowed to watch. I got pneumonia and spent 4 weeks in bed and I must have watch The Four Seasons a dozen times.
I’ve seen it so many times in bits and pieces! Born in 75. So random!
Definitely having trouble keeping up with Andor. It would be one thing if episodes were 30-40 minutes but 3 hours per week is a big ask.
I don’t have trouble keeping up, but I REALLY wish they would release before 9 PM ET so that I have a fighting chance of getting to sleep at a reasonable time.
Or just do T-W-Th.
Same, I still have only had time to watch the first episode of the new season. There’s just not enough time in the day, especially when your spouse would rather watch anything else.
Oh I'm so thankful for that Peacemaker clip - I was also certain I remembered this discussion happening and also could not remember where.
The release schedule is and for me. A dad with a day job. I love the show but barely watch 3 hours of tv a week. And then by the time I’m caught up there’s 3 more. I don’t feel I can read reviews or have discussions because I’m behind and everyone is at different places.
One episode a week! Let buzz grow and people might want to engage in those convos and watch week to week.
Selfishly, I think the folks who prefer to binge can wait til it’s all out. Cater to us week to week watchers!
If by "having trouble keeping up with Andor" you mean "haven't started watching it yet", then yes, I fall into that category!
My son liked season 1 and wants to watch with us. But school is still in session, and Little League has started, so we haven't had time to all sit down and watch. Just trying to avoid spoilers until we can get to it.
I'm having trouble keeping up with everything. I need to finish the last two episodes of Dark Winds and haven't started Andor, which I think I'll leave it to watch all together when it's done. Reason: Playoffs. The Knicks x Pistons game yesterday was incredible! Then there was the Pacers game, the Lakers game, the Clippers game...this year, it feels like every game in this first round is a banger!
I started Dark Winds. I have one episode left of the first season & I’m enjoying it for the most part, but some of the acting is so… bad, it’s hard to focus on the story. (Obv, ZM is wonderful) Does it get better?
Same! Between the shows already on air, the start of baseball season, and round 1 of the nba playoffs (where both my team and my husband’s team are in)….there’s just so much going on.
We are waiting to start Hacks after Gemstones ends, and will watch The Rehearsal and Andor probably in June when the influx of new shows/seasons quiets and the playoffs aren’t on every night.
He’s rightfully going to remembered for his tv career first, but Alan Alda has had memorable roles on the big screen. I wish also he hadn’t stopped directing movies.
Loved (and still love) THE FOUR SEASONS. Could be an interesting series...but haven't we seen this a dozen times before--I'm especially thinking of THIS IS US?
Enjoying ANDOR, it's actually making a lot more sense to me this season, and I don't mind the wait or the "stretching out" of the time between episodes, as it gives me something to look forward to and it's not over too fast (doing the same thing with HANDSMAID'S TALE this last season).
I saw The Four Seasons in the theater at age 11, and I loved it. I adored Carol Burnett back then, and I wanted to see her in everything. And given her recent acting gigs, I wasn’t the only Gen Xer who felt that way.
Definitely having trouble keeping up with Andor. Three episodes in a week is a lot, even for a show I admire.
I wish Disney were releasing one episode per week.
To the extent there is a cultural conversation, it will be about groups of three episodes, and if you don’t watch all three in the first day or two those episodes are available, then the conversation will be over by the time you’re in a position to participate.
If you want to have 2+ hours of content released all at once, focusing on a specific set of events that happen a year apart from what you released last time or will release next time, it seems like you want to be releasing four movies, not a television season.
Loved The Four Seasons film and have watched it pretty regularly over the years. I've seen the first four episodes of the new series which I found very enjoyable and true to the spirit of the original.
I’ve been binging all 3 Andor eps on Tues and Wed. Love the show. (But do agree with you that the Mon Mothma scenes in the first batch were incredibly drawn out – I was so bored by all the wedding stuff.)
One quick comment: I hate to be a prude but the sex and nudity on Hacks is really unnecessary. The sex scene last season added nothing to the story. At least this season's was kind funny. Not against sex and nudity, just don't see the point on Hacks.
These condensed seasons of Andor led me to wonder how S1 would have worked had it been only three episodes (Gilroy had to have jettisoned multiple subplots, characters, and entire arcs from his original concepts for S2-S5).
SPOILERS FOR S1: The strongest episodes of S1 are the big heist and the prison eps but Marva's funeral at the end of the series is likely something they couldn't lose, and the prison eps don't impact the story moving forward. I'd guess they'd explain Cassian's "origin" via a couple quick scenes or some exposition, focus on Luthen recruiting Cassian for a much faster paced, less character-driven heist, and then work the Marva funeral/rebellion on Ferrix into the third ep. They'd jettison much of Syril's back story/setup and condense his "romance" with Dedra down significantly. END SPOILERS.
It would be a much different show without the rich character development of S1. We'll never know if S2-5 would have worked as planned or if the show would have fallen into the many potential traps of trying to extend a story like this that far. Gilroy's approach to showrunning seems to be a bit unique (according to him, they didn't even have writers on set for either season), so the potential for things to go awry might be there in longer seasons.
This is a bit of an off the wall comment but sort of tangentially related because it is regarding Rolling Stone’s former movie critic, Peter Travers, whose movie and TV reviews I still enjoy reading over at his ABC News / GMA hub. He used to post two reviews every Friday like clockwork until a couple of weeks ago. This is the third consecutive Friday with no reviews. Does anyone know where Travers went or if he is coming back?