It’s about the choice of song at the end.

Well kinda, except if I wanted to do I could just extract the datafiles from steam and then get crack if the worst happened.

Plus Netflix/Amazon/Apple remove content all the time and thus terminate people’s access to stuff they’ve bought on there.

Well this is more for the lesser-watched, often geoblocked shows whereby you simply can’t acquire them legally.

Yeah, but you don’t “buy” buy them proper. They’re like digital renting.

Well I’d imagine that this system, if set up properly, would in theory reduce piracy by quite a bit might be a good incentive.

Yeah, I mean ultimately muh rights issues aren’t the consumers problem. If the networks and streamers don’t make a TV series accessible on day 1, the internet will.

Well you don’t get locked into a streamer like you did cable.

Yeah I understand that, but it’s kinda time this changed really in this day and age. Korea doesn’t seem to have any problem spamming their media to the globe.

Well, okay, they could sell it like that on their own platform then. But they don’t.

You would have two ways to watch a show.

1. Get the streaming app and sub to it and watch it on there like now.
2. Buy it on the steam store, and Apple/HBO/whoever takes a cut.

Some shows however, completely leave all streaming apps. At least (2) would still remain.

It wouldn’t replace them, it’d exist alongside it.

I think one thing you have to keep in mind is that a lot of leading contemporary actors who get cast in modern TV series are not down to do 20-24 episodes a season as leads. Many of them are on other shows, or films and don’t want such an obscene filming schedule - and are able to negotiate that as an outcome. Apart from which, a contemporary 20-24 episodes long TV series really has to compete in a way it didn’t 20, even 10 years ago. Unless you’re just a by-the-books network medical/cop procedural with a built-in presumably older audience, there’s a lot more competition for people’s attention now.

When TV shows were airing in the 90s and early 00s and late 00s, people weren’t really watching korean TV, or nordic noir for instance. There was very little of it comparatively, and what there was barely made it to the USA. This means getting people’s attention for a TV show with such a large amount of episodes compared to everything else is a pretty tall order. Audiences also expect, I think, better budgets per episode now.

I watched Mr. Robot years ago now, but I’d disagree that it was harmed by its episode count. It was intensely serialised and packed a lot in it, whereas the majority of older 20-24 episode shows were primarily ‘monster-of-the-week’ with some of them having over half of their episodes a season completely self-contained.

The dad thriller genre?

I find it strange because when you look at the highest rated TV series of all time, almost all of them are about 10-13 episodes long a season. Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Mr. Robot, Dark. The long-form 22-24 episode a season TV series are not as highly critically acclaimed, on average, in comparison.

I don’t mean to appeal to popularity here, but the most ‘prestigious’ of content has mostly been serialised.

Btw can u update the movies sidebar and any other sidebars, and if u have any communities you want me to add (or add urself) to televisions sidebar

And the subs have gone from like 100 to 250 in a day (or less than) 👍

Do you think Black Sails, Dark were constrained?

Depends on the TV series purpose. Many episodes in 26 episode seasons weren’t plot-driven as such, as the episode was entirely self-contained and could be skipped without missing anything related to the wider arc

The television community on lemmy.world is shut down

We’re consolidating.