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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 197989" data-attributes="member: 82">I have get used to the shorter seasons too. Even the 17-18 episode seasons seem a little boring to me (thinking about &quot;Scandal&quot; or &quot;Empire&quot;). It´s a millennium thing: it wasn´t sudden but slow, therefore the change of format eventually worked for most people (at least for moi). I would have preferred TNT &quot;Dallas&quot; with 10-episode seasons (and less Mama likes scenes). But I think that it´s the HBO and Showtime series the ones that have proved that you can tell a story properly with just 10 or 12 episodes per season. Not sure if you could bingewatch back then (early 00s, but then came Netflix et al and it´s like a formula that seems new but we all had used before, for instance, when re-watching supersoaps like &quot;Dallas&quot; or &quot;Dynasty&quot;. 2 or 3 in a row work wonderfully well. The new shows are stories that have the word &quot;cliffhanger&quot; printed on their scripts. They really have TO end on a cliffhanger between one episode and the next, or one season and the next. Also, this is why there are so many open-ended, canceled shows out there (SOS, #SaveTheOA, #SaveTheOA!). And instead of giving each worthy show a minimum of 3 or 4 seasons, they´d rather resurrect sitcoms that already stank 15 years ago...[ATTACH=full]19476[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 197989, member: 82"] I have get used to the shorter seasons too. Even the 17-18 episode seasons seem a little boring to me (thinking about "Scandal" or "Empire"). It´s a millennium thing: it wasn´t sudden but slow, therefore the change of format eventually worked for most people (at least for moi). I would have preferred TNT "Dallas" with 10-episode seasons (and less Mama likes scenes). But I think that it´s the HBO and Showtime series the ones that have proved that you can tell a story properly with just 10 or 12 episodes per season. Not sure if you could bingewatch back then (early 00s, but then came Netflix et al and it´s like a formula that seems new but we all had used before, for instance, when re-watching supersoaps like "Dallas" or "Dynasty". 2 or 3 in a row work wonderfully well. The new shows are stories that have the word "cliffhanger" printed on their scripts. They really have TO end on a cliffhanger between one episode and the next, or one season and the next. Also, this is why there are so many open-ended, canceled shows out there (SOS, #SaveTheOA, #SaveTheOA!). And instead of giving each worthy show a minimum of 3 or 4 seasons, they´d rather resurrect sitcoms that already stank 15 years ago... [CENTER][ATTACH=full]19476[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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