In your Say Nothing review, you talk about how the book is able to sprawl in ways the show falls short at (a common problem with adaptations), and that the show doesn't do a good job of capturing that sprawl effectively. Therefore the season should be longer to accommodate that.
In the past, we've lamented the problem of studios taking ma…
In your Say Nothing review, you talk about how the book is able to sprawl in ways the show falls short at (a common problem with adaptations), and that the show doesn't do a good job of capturing that sprawl effectively. Therefore the season should be longer to accommodate that.
In the past, we've lamented the problem of studios taking material that merits 2-4 hours of storytelling and stretching it out to 8-10 hours, a cynical effort to stretch content beyond its breaking point.
It's confusing to me that in one instance we complain that stories are being puffed up and stretched out to create more hours of TV where as in the other we are complaining that other shows don't have enough hours to support their various subplots and supporting characters.
Isn't this really just poor writing/showrunning, possibly because the studios have both stripped the traditional writers room down to the bare studs, stressing the writing process while also eliminating many of the ways in which writers could learn the process and develop into effective showrunners.
The problem just seems to be that the series order should fit what works best for the material as opposed to an arbitrary, pre-determined number of episodes, whether that is 8-10 eps or 20-24 eps, simply because the business model demands it. Longer seasons aren't necessarily better and short seasons aren't always the answer either (much like not every drama should be an hour nor should they all be 30 minutes long either).
In your Say Nothing review, you talk about how the book is able to sprawl in ways the show falls short at (a common problem with adaptations), and that the show doesn't do a good job of capturing that sprawl effectively. Therefore the season should be longer to accommodate that.
In the past, we've lamented the problem of studios taking material that merits 2-4 hours of storytelling and stretching it out to 8-10 hours, a cynical effort to stretch content beyond its breaking point.
It's confusing to me that in one instance we complain that stories are being puffed up and stretched out to create more hours of TV where as in the other we are complaining that other shows don't have enough hours to support their various subplots and supporting characters.
Isn't this really just poor writing/showrunning, possibly because the studios have both stripped the traditional writers room down to the bare studs, stressing the writing process while also eliminating many of the ways in which writers could learn the process and develop into effective showrunners.
The problem just seems to be that the series order should fit what works best for the material as opposed to an arbitrary, pre-determined number of episodes, whether that is 8-10 eps or 20-24 eps, simply because the business model demands it. Longer seasons aren't necessarily better and short seasons aren't always the answer either (much like not every drama should be an hour nor should they all be 30 minutes long either).