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This is why I've started watching a lot of Asian entertainment. Kdramas and cdramas are nice in that they generally are planned to last for 1 season and one season only. it's nice to go into a show knowing you'll definitely get a resolution.

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We did the same. But there are so many trash in that genre though, we dropped more than a few

And to your point, showrunner Mike Flanagan does a similar thing, limited 1 season series like House of Usher and Midnight Mass.

Sounds like you just like movies, but longer.

The defining feature of a movie is its length, so no. Movies are narratives condensed into a time frame sized to match the audiences bladders. Its why adaptions of novels are difficult. Short stories are a better fit. A good adaption of a novel length narrative seems to take 6-20 hours of screen time. Holding a coherent story together for a novel or trilogy is difficult, and how we end up with soap operas which twine different stories together into a never ending rope.

It's an art to do this well. When making a movie, every second counts. You have to make compromises. Some people flat out refuse to accept that movies drop a lot of details from the book, but I appreciate both. It is my clipboard understanding many people in the US dislike Forrest Gump as it's been shoved into their faces by media over and over again, but even after reading the book I still think it's just a really good movie.

I think I might actually like televised books. I also love cbs or USA type procedurals. Shows like psych or bones or person of interest where you really got to know the characters over 24 episodes and those characters lived in a real fictional world and you knew that the next season was only a year away.

I haven't really been able to enjoy the netflix 8 episode model. Feels like you get 8 episodes of people on plot rails every 2-3 years and half of them get cancelled on a cliffhanger.

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