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OT: Movies/TV Shows

MindzEye said:
Yeah, a lot of people I know were right into it. I watched seasons 1 & 2...thought it was okay but didn't understand the raging wood so many people had for it, watched part of the season 3 and then "nope"d it. I've never been one of the biker sub culture to begin with, and when it started going all cliche/soap opera storyline on me, I checked out.
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Pretty much the same here....though I stuck around longer.

I really liked season 1 and 2....and it looked like season 3 was going to be awesome....then it sucked...and I gave up halfway through season 4.
 
Leo Bannister said:
That's exactly what it's like. Feels like a bad 80's Canadian show at times. ridiculous gun fights with bazooka's and shit being fired and nobody ever dying.
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The biggest piss off is there is never any fallout from anything....big huge things happen...then next week nobody cares.
 
I find that's damn near a pre-requisite for a quality one hour show these days, they should be structured around at least a single season larger narrative as opposed to working around a new story each and every week.

The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, etc all benefit from such a structure......Sherlock is a perfect example, episodes 1, 3, 4 and 6 of that series, which all had a larger overarching theme to them, were stronger than 2 & 5 which were one off "monster of the week" type episodes.
 
The first show to really do that well was x-files. They had a compelling overarching narrative sandwiched between outstanding "one-off" episodes that told great stories.
 
Yeah, pretty sure that's where the term "Monster of the Week" came from, when referring to such one off self-contained episodes......or at least that's where I first heard it used.
 
Networks resisted the arc in prime time because they didn't want to lose viewers who may have missed a week or two. Technology like vcrs, pvrs, dvds made the networks more daring. I think 24 on FOX was the first network to go all in witha serial approach but it almost backfired -- ratings were shaky at first and they had to repeat early shows to get enough people into it.
 
Netflix, and the propensity for people to binge-watch these days is definitely going to help swing the balance of people looking for quality.....I think the "House of Cards" model is going to become the new norm.
 
Montana said:
Netflix, and the propensity for people to binge-watch these days is definitely going to help swing the balance of people looking for quality.....I think the "House of Cards" model is going to become the new norm.
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Netflix stock price agrees with you. Up $150 since the start of the year.
 
Montana said:
Netflix, and the propensity for people to binge-watch these days is definitely going to help swing the balance of people looking for quality.....I think the "House of Cards" model is going to become the new norm.
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This is by far the most fitting meme for me ever.

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The standard tv model is dead. No one wants to watch a full 22 episode network schedule spread over 10 months with a lot of repeats. Netflix idea of making available the entire season at once for when you want to watch it is the way to go.
 
CH1 said:
Networks resisted the arc in prime time because they didn't want to lose viewers who may have missed a week or two. Technology like vcrs, pvrs, dvds made the networks more daring. I think 24 on FOX was the first network to go all in witha serial approach but it almost backfired -- ratings were shaky at first and they had to repeat early shows to get enough people into it.
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24 was really such a daring show that changed tv.
 
JackBurton said:
The standard tv model is dead. No one wants to watch a full 22 episode network schedule spread over 10 months with a lot of repeats. Netflix idea of making available the entire season at once for when you want to watch it is the way to go.
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Yep... now they just need to put out 20+ quality series a year.
 
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