[ SECRET POST #5962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5962 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I do think the problem is streaming (and more generally, the extremely competitive attention economy of the internet) and that producers are too quick to write off a show as a failure after one season.

You essentially end up in one of two extreme cases:
- A show is stellar in the first season. It gets a lot of buzz and the platform is very happy. It gets renewed. It's very difficult to bottle lightning twice and the subsequent seasons just don't reach the same level of quality or buzz. Everyone is disappointed. The initial investment in the show doesn't pay off.
- A show is less than stellar in the first season. Executives culling the weak shows from the strong cancel it after one season. The initial investment in the show never pays off.

Really, it should be the opposite -- stellar shows should tell self-contained stories and end after the planned story is done rather than be forced to come up with new material because they're popular. Weaker shows should be given the chance to learn from their mistakes and grow.

I think ideally, what you want is to have middling shows that have promise in terms of premise/writing/characters but aren't necessarily BAM, the most high tension, thrilling, well-written (pre-existing) plot right out the door. But those middling shows get renewed, the writers develop experience writing the characters and the actors similarly get a feel of what they're doing with the characters; there aren't expectations that the subsequent seasons have to hit the high bar of the first season but rather the first season introduces the characters and premise and people understand and get more attached to them over time, and subsequent seasons have room to improve or weaken, rather than are basically guaranteed to be worse given the initial show-stopping season. By renewing the show, you build up an invested audience that can more than make up for the initial lack of buzz that a stellar show gets.

Also, we need more shows that are episodic rather than a long-running plot so that there is a clear status quo that people can comprehend over time and the show isn't constantly having to reinvent itself each season because the last cliffhanger completely changed the premise of the show or whatever... It's hard to invest yourself in a show if the characters/setting/plot are almost completely torn down and built up again each season, or if every single season involves preventing the destruction of the entire world or whatever. Like, just give the characters time to breathe.