[cletus]

That's.... actually movies in general (IMHO).

To me the last 20 years has been the true Golden Age of Television because streaming has enabled the rise of serialized TV as the best medium to adapt long form written content.

Movies are for comics, short stories and literary works (because they tend to be incredibly short). TV is for novels.

Like Game of Thrones would never have worked as a movie (or even a series of movies). It's just such a shame it mysteriously ended after season 6.

Back in 2006 I actually had a conversation with someone after seeing Deadwood (fantastic show BTW) where I literally said that the GRRM books should be a TV show and it would probably take the likes of HBO to do it. IIRC HBO optioned the books in 2007.

I haven't read WWZ but yeah, the movie... was not great. Like 3 things happened.

[ghaff]

Movies, miniseries, and long-running TV series are just all different. Even if it means trimming out subplots and side stories, a lot of the time I just want a story that plays out over a couple hours. (I'm also not sure the distinction you're drawing between "literary works" and novels. There are tons of novels that are "literature" and many have been made into very good films.)

I agree with your basic point that streaming has somewhat freed video from the confines of either having a ~2 hour film or a generally episodic TV series that runs for as long as people will continue to watch it. There have obviously been various exceptions but 2 hour film or Law and Order was pretty much the norm.

[todd8]

I’m looking forward to Apple’s upcoming TV versions of Dune by Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. These are such big stories that they can’t be squeezed into a movie without losing their allure.