TV Tuesday: Seasons and An Announcement

[yourlibrarian]

Do you prefer short seasons for your shows, long seasons, or no seasons at all, like soap operas that go on without a clear break? What do you consider the minimum number of episodes to make up an effective season of a TV show?

Also, an announcement! Starting January 12 the mods would like to kick off a weeklong rec fest. Although people do rec shows on other days, we thought a tagged recs event would help newcomers find shows they might enjoy more easily.

So for 7 days of genres we'll have Sunday: Family viewing/Children's Shows, Monday: Comedies, Tuesday: Dramas, Wednesday: Sci Fi/Fantasy, Thursday: Mysteries or Horror, Friday: Romances, and Saturday: Miscellaneous (any shows you don't think fit the other categories!)

We hope you'll put together some recs to share over the next month -- they can be shows you've discussed before in other tv_talk posts, new things you've just tried out, or shows others have recced before!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Yay for coming recs!

Your comment reminded me that I would be fine with shows that were just intentionally a miniseries. Fairly often I think the ending is sufficient for the show and doesn't need to go on. Of course there are more shows that get cancelled too soon but there are also others that get dragged out way past the point of any enjoyment.

[ecto_one_spengler]

Totally agreed. Miniseries really do better when they are creative with the short timeframe.