A co-worker was talking up this show to me and how good it is. Unfortunately for WGN America she gave it as an example of the only CW show she watches. 😟
Mmhmm. Liu/Miller>>>Cumberbatch/Freeman
Theres been a lot of talk in the business about Too Much TV the surfeit of hundreds of original scripted series every year. But theres a corollary issue: Too-Big TV. Even as viewers time becomes more precious, individual episodes are bloating. Television has come down with a case of gigantism.
At best, extended episodes can make room for complexity. But focus and showmanship still matter. In a peak-TV era, being able to hook an audience is more important, not less.
Are people finding this to be a problem in general? I don't think this comes up a lot with most of the shows that I watch.
Are people finding this to be a problem in general? I don't think this comes up a lot with most of the shows that I watch.
It is not the runtime, it is what you do with it.
as someone who is watching Sherlock, I might have to agree. These eps feel loooooooooooooooong
They did. That kind of stuff actually bothers me a lot since some errors becomes glaringly obvious. I think last week was two episodes and both of them should have been behind the episode from yesterday.
I think that every half hour Netflix show I've watched should have had broadcast length 21-minute episodes, so I can see where Poniewozik is coming from.
Bloat I think also comes from episodes feeling unfocused, especially when creators are trying to do the 10(or so) hour movie season thing instead of the traditional TV model. Which is why I never feel bloat on BCS or The Americans, because there is a purpose to running slightly longer in a particular episode, rather than using those extra minutes on a C plot that will never graduate higher so you squeeze in that extra scene to remind people it's still going on in the background.
In BCS or The Americans for example, that extra time is spent holding some extra beats in certain scenes whereas say in Daredevil, those extra 5 or so minutes is given to Karen who will never get an A or B plot ever, so what's the harm right?
I think that every half hour Netflix show I've watched should have had broadcast length 21-minute episodes, so I can see where Poniewozik is coming from.
Exactly. You're right.
Next week's sounds like it may be out of order, too.
It bugs me as well, but thankfully this is a shitty show I don't care much about at all and just watch because Patrick Warburton is in it.
It's ok. WGN will soon get nerd cred with ScalpedA co-worker was talking up this show to me and how good it is. Unfortunately for WGN America she gave it as an example of the only CW show she watches. 😟
This one feels somewhat well though out actually, comes down to pricing and how well they are able to convert TCM viewers, old folks who like classic film but don't usually use streaming services, and Criterion buyers to subscribers.Turners launching an ad-free streaming site, FilmStruck, this fall featuring what it calls an eclectic mix of contemporary and classic art house, indie, foreign and cult films. Turner Classic Movies will run the operation, which will be the exclusive streaming venue for the Criterion Collection, including its Criterion Channel.
Criterions library is moving from Hulu, where it had been had been available since 2011 after moving from Netflix.
Turner says pricing for FilmStruck is still being determined. Films it will offer include A Hard Days Night, Seven Samurai, A Room With A View, Blood Simple, My Life As A Dog, Mad Max, Breaker Morant, and The Player.
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Criterion Collection President Peter Becker says the new service will include a steady stream of exclusive original content and archival discoveries, plus continual access to more than 1,000 films from the Janus Films library, many unavailable on disc or anywhere else.
every show on netflix goes on too long, their hourly ones are just as bloated.
Okay, so this isn't really about TV but talking about streaming services;
Turner And Criterion Team To Launch Classic Movie SVOD Service
This one feels somewhat well though out actually, comes down to pricing and how well they are able to convert TCM viewers, old folks who like classic film but don't usually use streaming services, and Criterion buyers to subscribers.
Somewhat sucky news for those who subscribe to Hulu though.
And Ratsky, you better watch at least one Ozu film before they leave Hulu...
I wonder if the day will come where company will have its own exclusive streaming service.
A jam-packed episode featuring Joe Adalian on the uncertain future of HBO's "Vinyl," and what that says about the networks current approach to drama; Nate Jones on the season 6 premier of "Game of Thrones;" and Alan Sepinwall in conversation with Matt Zoller Seitz about the enduring fascination of the antihero and the recently-concluded second season of "Better Call Saul."
Nah. I'm sure most companies will give a try, but I doubt that people would be willing to pay for that many streaming services and companies will realize that the costs of running their own isn't worth the benefit, so they'll go back to licensing their stuff to another streaming outfit.
There will be a rough few years while the companies try, however.
Okay, so this isn't really about TV but talking about streaming services;
Turner And Criterion Team To Launch Classic Movie SVOD Service
This one feels somewhat well though out actually, comes down to pricing and how well they are able to convert TCM viewers, old folks who like classic film but don't usually use streaming services, and Criterion buyers to subscribers.
Somewhat sucky news for those who subscribe to Hulu though.
And Ratsky, you better watch at least one Ozu film before they leave Hulu...
Guess we're getting to the end of the season
Gotham is on break again?! Jeez. I still have to watch the last two episodes, but I just assumed they were running through until the end.
I also didn't realize they were letting Reign finish up on Mondays. I just assumed it was going to finish out its season in summer or something. So is Crazy Ex done for the year?
Blindspot: breakout hit of the season? Maybe everyone quit when they realized the plot was spinning its wheels & messing with the viewers early on. One step forward, two steps back... :/
I have no idea what they are doing with Gotham
Think would pair it down with Lucifer, but Lucifer ended last night and then... no idea what's there with Gotham for the next... month or so
Minus the good fight sequences in the first few episodes, it's garbage. I don't think its ratings have bottomed out, either.
Damn. I really thought I had no more horses in the cancelation game, but for last four weeks Damien has turned into such a great show. With each episode I hoping more and more than A&E will renew it.
Mike and Molly is back!?!?!?! And I missed it!?!?!
Blindspot: breakout hit of the season? Maybe everyone quit when they realized the plot was spinning its wheels & messing with the viewers early on. One step forward, two steps back... :/
So is Crazy Ex done for the year?
Yeah, since Supergirl is done Mike and Molly came back to do its wrap up
Guess we're getting to the end of the season
As I predicted there's gonna be massive balkanization as everyone tries to run their own streaming vod service until most of the players realize they can't afford the infrastructure or don't have much to offer besides maybe their back catalogue. It'll be interesting to see where everything is 5 years from now.Nah. I'm sure most companies will give a try, but I doubt that people would be willing to pay for that many streaming services and companies will realize that the costs of running their own isn't worth the benefit, so they'll go back to licensing their stuff to another streaming outfit.
There will be a rough few years while the companies try, however.
Genuine perspective on Blindspot: I rather like it. It's a decent show but it definitely has its flaws, but one of them definitely is not character work. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants blazing fast plot, this show definitely feels like it fits a much more older mold of TV. I also wouldn't say it's an intense character study but for a show that is literally about a woman tattooed from neck to toe, they devote a surprising amount of runtime to character work each episode (usually 1/3, almost 1/2 sometimes) that's outside of the main tattoo-crime-of-the-week. Yes the world's status quo 'resets' - but the characters are often put into interesting dynamics that I like quite a bit and the characters never have their status quo reset. The show does move forward at a brisk pace, just not in the same manner most people expect in an OMG CONSPIRACY?! / genre show.Blindspot: breakout hit of the season? Maybe everyone quit when they realized the plot was spinning its wheels & messing with the viewers early on. One step forward, two steps back... :/
Hilariously relevant?Can't watch Mike & Molly on CBS.com due to region locking, and CTV doesn't have it up. Every other show is, it seems, but not M&M.
Damn
Many Canadians are enraged by Netflix's declared war on cross-border watchers, who skirt the company's rules by sneaking across virtual borders to stream Netflix shows and movies restricted to other countries.
Sometimes it's hard to be satisfied with Netflix Canada's library when our American neighbours have, it's estimated, access to almost double the content.
Since mid-January, the streaming service giant is cracking down on border hoppers by blocking access to foreign content. Netflix made the sudden move reportedly at the behest of Hollywood studios who demand country-exclusive licensing agreements.
But this big and bold clampdown may backfire at least in Canada. Turns out, Canadians are big pirates at heart. Apparently, we feel somewhat entitled to download illegal content when we don't have cheap and easy access.
Instead of shelling out $10 for a Netflix subscription, some people now may opt to pay nothing at all to get what they want.
Please cancel Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. 21 minutes of tropes, cliche's and stories we've seen 100 times before.
As long as studios sell their shows to different groups internationally, this is the reality we live in. I can't imagine a scenario where CTV would pay for TV broadcast rights but not want exclusive streaming rights as well.The problem is that this is less the fault of Netflix, and more the result of the media companies' licensing rights. Netflix had to eventually enforce these restrictions or the media companies would abandon them. I'm sure that Netflix would love to just universally license everything (for a reasonable price).
Genuine perspective on Blindspot: I rather like it. It's a decent show but it definitely has its flaws, but one of them definitely is not character work. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants blazing fast plot, this show definitely feels like it fits a much more older mold of TV. I also wouldn't say it's an intense character study but for a show that is literally about a woman tattooed from neck to toe, they devote a surprising amount of runtime to character work each episode (usually 1/3, almost 1/2 sometimes) that's outside of the main tattoo-crime-of-the-week. Yes the world's status quo 'resets' - but the characters are often put into interesting dynamics that I like quite a bit and the characters never have their status quo reset. The show does move forward at a brisk pace, just not in the same manner most people expect in an OMG CONSPIRACY?! / genre show.
You don't have to like it and sometimes it tests me but there's worst crafted shows with bigger audiences championing for them.Arrow and The Flash, ironically from the same production family