I don’t see the point of television these days, especially if you have easy access to internet. I have almost no clue of what’s happening in the world except the big global stuff, nevermind my country. We’re getting poorer, less jobs, yadayada… I bet that’s what’s going on in the news.
And I don’t watch media, I rather watch clips of movies I grew up with on YouTube.
I have YouTube TV and only use it for sports.
I’ll go one step further and say I haven’t watched a new, regular network television show in at least a decade. Who has time to watch 20-something episodes each season - with much of that time spent on fluff story lines that only exist so the show can fill a time slot for 22/23 weeks a year?
Here’s a great example: Lost.
At the time it was amazing. But there was also a lot of unnecessary BS in there because, frankly, they needed to fill time. If you go and look, almost all of the top rated episodes for the series were the last handful of episodes at the end of the season.
Now imagine if they took that show and made 10/13 episode seasons out of it.
I think you could make the same case for most network TV shows. Even if they were amazing at 23 episodes, they’d be even better at 10 or 13.
A great example IMO is Friday Night Lights. Amazing show overall, but that first season was just too long. Then because of a variety of reasons, they moved to 13-15 episodes a season (instead of 23 in season one), and the show excelled.
On the subject of Lost you could spend the same amount of time watching the entire Lost TV series watching Billiam’s retrospectives about the series!
…in case you want to spend 20 hours of your life watching a make a wish kid talk about Lost
Apparently YouTube has been supressing him from my recommendations lately so I guess I have some videos to catch up on
Tbf, all the well written shows of the last decade only made 10-13 episodes per season. This was one of the major reasons for the writers strike since they only got paid per episode.