Like pretty much everyone else, I’m watching the TV adaptation of this weekend Stand out. I really enjoy it and there’s a lot that I like about it characters and sense of place through the way it integrates the game’s mechanics and setting into a non-interactive format. It’s a very solid show that has the potential to become great over time, which is exactly what Amazon is allegedly There is already an extension of the second season.
Just one small problem, or at least one that isn’t really the show’s fault: this was supposed to be a weekly series. Unlike his other hit shows like The young or Invincible, For reasons that are unclear, Amazon decided to release all eight episodes at once. It’s not short enough to be billed as a miniseries event, and its scope is such that each episode lasts about an hour or a little longer. From the first moments Stand out feels like a prestige series that typically thrives on a weekly schedule that forces you to put a lot of work into watching it.
Streamers are content to release their show however they want, and in theory, the all-at-once binge model helps viewers determine the pace at which they watch a show on their own terms. But this has arguably hurt television in many ways – it’s too easy for shows to slip under the radar (and as a result). be canceled before they really get off the ground), you end up being treated to something because everyone else on social media is way ahead of you, which means You in the wrong headspace. As the first season of Luke Cage came out in 2016, I watched it all day and felt a little burnt out by the end. The choice may have been mine, but Netflix penalizes almost any show that doesn’t emerge as a success. It’s one thing to run a few episodes of an hour-long series (or ones with a runtime of 11/22 minutes), and another to do a full 13-episode season that probably could have benefited from 10 episodes.
On the other hand, shows tend to benefit more from weekly releases. At the moment they are two of the biggest shows Shogun And X Men ’97. Both are equally great in their own right, but they are talked about so much because they come out weekly. Each episode grows their respective communities and encourages discussion as people post theories and memes to laugh or laugh easy to get along with what just happened. Essentially, it’s the cycle of television life: studios produce a show that grabs the attention of audiences, who then love it and treat it like an event.
Television is in a strange situation right now as companies are starting to remember what the medium is for and how to be successful in it. Ads are be inserted back in shows (albeit awkwardly), and shows they are be converted into actual shows rather than chopped up films. Even Netflix, the king of the binge model, offers something similar on a weekly basis Delicious in the dungeon. Ben David Grabinskiwho helped create Netflix Scott Pilgrim takes off, even went so far as to call performing one show at a time “the dumbest shit ever.” There is literally no advantage.”
It’s understood television was destroyed for several years in many different ways. Part of the way to fix this problem should be to go back to our weekly roots: Stand out It feels like it was designed to be a weekly show from the start, and it just feels wrong for such a strong series to release a series of “Season Finale, Explained” posts just days after its release.
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