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

[tinny]

Considering cdrama doesn't do more than one season at all (except for rare exceptions like Under The Skin (yay!)), I've kind of fallen out of the expectation for more seasons in the first place. cdrama of course makes things with 40/50 episodes and calls it a season instead. (That's also bad. As is the fact that they release everything at once or 4 eps at a time/per day.)

But, for everything except cdrama, my personal preference is 8+ episodes (no upper limit lol) with one ep per week. I'm okay with waiting a year for the next season. Coming back to a show you've loved before is one of the best things! Season premieres ftw!



I have three shows on my list that I have 'promised' to write rec posts for, so I guess I should get on that then! \o/ (I love this comm, thanks for running it - it does take effort to keep a place alive. <3)

[yourlibrarian]

Wow, that is quite the release schedule 0.0 Seems like a telenovela rather than a regular drama. (Even so, 4 episodes per day...)

It can definitely be a celebratory thing when a new season is released, more so after a year's gap I agree.

Aw, thank you. misbegotten and I certainly appreciate everyone who reads and comments! It's great to hear we'll have some recs from you 😊