[drblast]

My wife and I spend quite a bit of time watching 22 or 50 minute TV shows in succession on Netflix.

I think that format is in many ways more interesting, as you can develop a story in much more depth than you could with a 2 hour movie.

[KaiserPro]

Thats longform/episodic, which is not the same as feature length hollywood.

However you are correct that 8x25 or 6x60 allows for far richer narrative. (The BBC's sherlock is a brilliant example of this 3x90 minutes of tastily thick narrative)