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Opinion: Small screen, big investment: TV episodes have become way too long
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I like the length, especially when not constrained by broadcast TV time slots (e.g. you can get a few extra-long episodes for finales and such). I think my biggest gripe is the hyper-serialized format making every season a 10 hour movie.
Getting back to the episode length, then I guess some series could benefit from being twenty, 30-minute episodes as opposed to ten 1-hour ones. Never thought I'd say this, but sometimes you just need a "filler" episode.
Edit: Gonna tack on my second gripe. You only get ten episodes and then it's nearly two years between seasons for some shows. By the time the next season rolls around, I've completely forgotten the prior one and have to re-watch it to have any idea what's happening.
Not even that, just have a nice arc that actually fits into a single episode rather than it be a chapter in a 10 hr movie. I consider most episodes filler because they can’t stand on their own and only make sense in the bigger picture which is frustrating if you actually want to want an episode in isolation and don’t want to binge a whole series in one sitting.