I agree with this. But for so many reasons: TV shows are usually built differently.
They have options a movie hasn’t - world building, character development.
They are “bitesized” by design: a convenient pre-made cut that I can decide to take a break on, or watch the next episode.
That said, I have seen so-called miniseries that were just a longer movie cut into bits, or vice versa.But most importantly, all this depends very, very much on the quality of the show or the movie.
World building and character development add value exponentially. The only way I can commit to any long form media is if I feel like I’m going to have the chance to really immerse myself in the world and sympathise with the characters. If anything, my preference for a series over a movie stems from the anxiety of wasting 2 hours on something underdeveloped. It seems better to invest a movie’s worth of time just setting up a premise that I can then truly enjoy over several more hours of story telling in a world that feels real and complex.
Completely the opposite. I get 3 episodes into a show and I almost always lose interest. Films are great cause I sit down once, watch the thing, and then move on with my life. Getting into a new show is like a marriage I didn’t ask for.
Some stories work better as movies, some work better as a series.
Shows have the advantage of having natural breaking points. You don’t have to watch the whole movie at once, but it’s paced that way.
Shows have the advantage of having natural breaking points.
Not necessarily, some shows will happily end an episode on a cliffhanger to make you come back next week.
As long as either ones actually gets a proper ending.
So many tv shows are just some CEOs checklist of products that they need on their platform. Netflix has a successful spy thriller? Now Amazon and Hulu are going to pump out a copycat slop to satisfy their greedy yearly quotas.
I can’t commit to spending my time with a product that can’t even respect the customer enough to properly finish making it.
Fuck cliffhangers and never committing to 100% killing a character. Always keeping things open, an option for the next season, or not.
TV series have spoiled me with an actual storyline. Movies just seem to cram as much as they can into such little time that most of them just seem lacking to me now.
TBF if you can get the director’s cut or extend version of almost any movie, it gets better.
And it really depends on the story being told.
Oh yes, I noticed this recently with Andor. Watched both seasons and then Rogue One, the film felt rushed. On the other hand I also recently rewatched the Matrix films and it’s surprising how little happens especially in the first film. Maybe film is just not the right medium for long complex stories.
I find that there isn’t the time for a movie to world-build in the way that a TV series can.
I do so long as I can fast forward the boring bits! I haven’t sat in a cinema with no control over pausing and fast forwarding in years. (Edit: I should say I’ve got ADHD so that’s probably why lol)
