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TV Tuesday: Seasons and An Announcement
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
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That being said, it has to have REALLY good plot, characters or music to keep me there. Otherwise it may be not worth it for me.
Also I would be excited to give recs now that I have seen a few more things, hehe!
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I love the idea of a rec fest! At one point, I was thinking about doing a post where people could name a show and the aspects they loved about it, and people would recommend similar stuff. But I wasn't sure if that would work in a random post that only a few people see.
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As for "no seasons at all" approach, TTRPG actual play shows like Critical Role definitely apply to this as their campaigns are ongoing and can last for years (each campaign has over 100 episodes, with each episode being around 4 hours long). It only works for this kind of story platform though, as I probably wouldn't have had the energy to continue on with watching such a show otherwise.
In addition to that, Asian dramas often don't have more than one season and their episode order can vary depending. Cdramas now have a max limit of 40 episodes, though previously it had been up to 60 or 70 episodes.
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I love serials - which usually require a longer arc to build character and develop story, as do fantasy and sci-fi. However a good tight story told within six to ten episodes is wonderful.
In short, I don't really have a preference? I'm not a fan of the episodic style series, where it's basically a lot of stand-a-lone mystery/case/crisis/monster of the week, and the characters change in small bite-size snippets each season.
The minimum is six, preferably 10, I can kind of see why the requirement of 13 was in place for DVD releases. But I think 6-10 is the best minimum. Maximum 22 per season, unless it is a soap opera or serial.
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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)
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Ha, ha, what would people do with 39 episodes per season as was the norm in the '50s/early '60s? 😝
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