Multi Episode Programming Burnout

I think the UK srries format is the best: 6 one-hour episodes are enough. If one can't tell a story in 6 hours, then it's not a good story to begin with.

[quote]ven shows like Ted Lasso have filler episodes dedicated to weird tangents focusing on particular characters.

Those two episodes this season happened because the writers already had S2 mapped out when Apple gave them an additional 2 episodes so they used two discarded plot lines to fulfill the order.

I hear you, OP. I posted in another thread recently that I miss the days when TV series produced self-contained episodes. Everything now has to be serialized and it really gets tiresome after a while.

Today’s programming is why I stopped reading Stephen King novels when I was younger. Lots of unnecessary plot and character development derivations, so his books were unnecessarily long and tedious. Why do I need to start following the life of the liquor store cashier who the main character meets while buying beer?

Quite a few limited series would've worked much better as a two-hour movie. The plot gets dragged out with a lot of filler. HBO's recent The Outsider is a good example. Ten episodes was FAR too much, the whole story could've been told in two hours.