He believes that a LOT of series, especially on Netflix, were originally intended to be a 2 hour movie, but Netflix wants “engagement,” so they insist that it be spread out over 10 episodes to increase engagement. That leads to storylines where they just create useless meandering plot tangents just to drag it out. Once he pointed it out to me, I’m seeing it a lot.
I just recently decided to start Him & Her because I saw that it was the current top rated show, and I quit halfway through the second episode, because I realized they were complicating the plot for no other reason than to drag it out. It wasn’t compelling, or mysterious, it was annoying.
Netflix is ruining cinematic storytelling, and the rest are going to follow.
You sound a lot like my son except:
He believes that a LOT of series, especially on Netflix, were originally intended to be a 2 hour movie, but Netflix wants “engagement,” so they insist that it be spread out over 10 episodes to increase engagement. That leads to storylines where they just create useless meandering plot tangents just to drag it out. Once he pointed it out to me, I’m seeing it a lot.
I just recently decided to start Him & Her because I saw that it was the current top rated show, and I quit halfway through the second episode, because I realized they were complicating the plot for no other reason than to drag it out. It wasn’t compelling, or mysterious, it was annoying.
Netflix is ruining cinematic storytelling, and the rest are going to follow.