[mvdtnz]

> Nowadays the energy, ingenuity and talent that would have gone into making smaller films is instead going into making premium TV.

I hate this. I think 80-110 minutes is a good amount of time to tell a story. It's enough time to develop characters and build a world, but it's short enough that to be effective a film has to be ruthlessly edited.

Stories for TV are so bloated. Series like Stranger Things, Servant, The Last of Us and Russian Doll would have been perfectly suited to the movie format, but instead they get padded out to 8-hour seasons.

I should note I don't think this is true of all series, by any means. Lots of stories are well suited to the series format, like Succession, Dahmer or The Boys. And I know my opinion won't be a popular one because the runaway success of long bloated stories shows us which way the winds are blowing.

[ahartmetz]

I have a similar opinion about series. They tend to become either repetitive or implausible over time, and they rarely have a decent ending. Too much time to fill and too little ability to plan ahead to avoid these.