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**Chris** · 09-07-2020, 10:15

I think we have rose tinted glasses on when it comes to old fashioned, 20+ week tv broadcast seasons. The quality of episodes varied sometimes wildly from week to week and decent gritty arcs (such as the Dominion War) would rarely surface in any meaningful way for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Shows commissioned for streaming services aren’t bound to the 40 minute run time required to fit adverts into a one hour broadcast slot, they’re not bound to the three mini cliffhangers required to run into the commercial break, and they’re not forced to pad the story arc out to the requirements of a US TV season. An 8-10 week run of a series like The Boys is much more like a well plotted and paced novel, and a good novel is a true page turner ... you keep reading based on how much time you have, not according to the whim of a scheduler.

I’m curious as to why anything is dropped weekly on a streaming service, and why it’s inconsistent - not everything is.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,929	Re: The Boys I think we have rose tinted glasses on when it comes to old fashioned, 20+ week tv broadcast seasons. The quality of episodes varied sometimes wildly from week to week and decent gritty arcs (such as the Dominion War) would rarely surface in any meaningful way for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Shows commissioned for streaming services aren’t bound to the 40 minute run time required to fit adverts into a one hour broadcast slot, they’re not bound to the three mini cliffhangers required to run into the commercial break, and they’re not forced to pad the story arc out to the requirements of a US TV season. An 8-10 week run of a series like The Boys is much more like a well plotted and paced novel, and a good novel is a true page turner ... you keep reading based on how much time you have, not according to the whim of a scheduler. I’m curious as to why anything is dropped weekly on a streaming service, and why it’s inconsistent - not everything is.