[ SECRET POST #6466 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6466 ⌋

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Comments

[iff_and_xor]

You don’t consider miniseries to be a type of TV show?

[(Anonymous)]

It is. But what makes something a miniseries, as opposed to the type of show OP is talking about, is that it's limited to a single string of episodes, rather than continuing over two or more seasons.

[iff_and_xor]

So OP is actually talking about condensing multiple (short) seasons of a TV show into a single movie?

That’s an even weirder take than I first thought.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, I thought I was losing my mind here. A miniseries is a self-contained story that is told within a small number of episodes and then ends. It's not at all comparable to a single season of a longer show.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
Previous anon already said it best. Miniseries or limited series are obviously a type of TV show but they’ve never been called that, they’re called miniseries or limited series events. TV shows has always been used to describe long running, multi season programs (even if they’re cancelled before additional seasons; they were produced with the intent of continuing).

[iff_and_xor]

You can say “they’ve never been called that”, but I have in fact experienced people calling them that. Maybe it’s not common in your experience, but it is in mine.

Anyway, getting back to the actual secret, does this mean that OP is actually suggesting that TV shows with multiple short seasons (or intended to have multiple short seasons) would be better as movies? And if you agree, do you have any examples?

[(Anonymous)]

It’s definitely not common in my experience. Plus, the secret specifies multiple season shows, which means they aren’t miniseries.

The first example to come to mind from what I’ve seen is Wednesday. I think I’d probably include the vast majority of Netflix shows but also the Star Wars and MCU shows, too.

[iff_and_xor]

Thanks, examples are really helpful!

I guess I’m just watching different TV shows. I think I must mostly watch ones that do well with the TV show format. Perhaps OP doesn’t know that there are such shows out there.

Re: Netflix, I did see The Gentlemen and while I think it could have used tightening up, I don’t think that making it a movie would have improved what they were trying to do. I’m not sure what else I’ve seen qualifies as a Netflix TV show.

Re: Star Wars, the only one I saw was The Mandalorian, which seems very suited to a TV structure. Adventure-of-the-week in the world of Star Wars was a great premise and I really think it got worse as it tried to become something else.

Re: MCU, I think WandaVision absolutely had to be a TV show and did some great experimental things with that structure. (Even if I didn’t like how they concluded it.) Hawkeye could probably have been a movie with some reworking, but I don’t see why that would have been necessarily better.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish we could cut YOUR forced miscommunication from this thread.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish you were capable of discussing things with people without getting your panties in a twist.