Holy shit, I need to rant about this because it’s driving me insane. Lately, it feels like every new show drops a single episode and then forces you to wait months for the rest.
Who actually enjoys this? A whole week for one episode? That’s an eternity in real life. By the time the next episode airs, I could be a completely different person—new job, new hobbies, maybe even a new brain—and suddenly, I don’t even care about the show anymore.
It’s like some 80-year-old corporate exec is sitting in a boardroom, smashing a big red button labeled “FEED THE MASSES” once a week, doling out TV like it’s fucking rations.
Some more reasons why it sucks:
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You forget the plot (and the whole vibe) between episodes.
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If an episode sucks, you just wasted a week of anticipation for nothing.
It’s like walking out of a movie halfway through and coming back seven days later for the rest. Who does that?
How I cope? I refuse to watch until the entire season is out. I want to enjoy the story properly, on my own time, without this drip-fed nonsense.
Back in the day, TV was just cheap filler for people with nothing better to do—endless soap operas where the most exciting thing that happened in a week was somebody’s amnesia curing or a long-lost twin showing up. Who had time for that?
But now? TV has evolved into something better than movies. We get deeper storytelling (no rushed 2-hour limits), higher production value (some shows look more cinematic than blockbusters), actual character development (instead of cramming arcs into a single film)
Yet studios still release episodes weekly like it’s 1985 and we’re all waiting around for Days of Our Lives. Newsflash: We’re not.
I guess if you find it funny it might help you ease feelings
All that conjures in my mind though is a mouse furiously hammering on a lever trying to get a pellet
Christ, do you realize what a jerk you’re being right now? Someone lamenting that an outdated content release model is outdated isn’t an inherent sign of addiction and there’s absolutely no reason to be forcing this conclusion on them like it’s a golden and unimpeachable truth. All of human behavior can be reduced to the terms of a skinner box, if you’re willing to ignore enough nuance to get there. It doesn’t make an argument valid just because you make the comparison, because the world isn’t populated entirely by coke-addicted rodents.