Holy shit, I need to rant about this because it’s driving me insane. Lately, it feels like every new show drops a single episode and then forces you to wait months for the rest.
Who actually enjoys this? A whole week for one episode? That’s an eternity in real life. By the time the next episode airs, I could be a completely different person—new job, new hobbies, maybe even a new brain—and suddenly, I don’t even care about the show anymore.
It’s like some 80-year-old corporate exec is sitting in a boardroom, smashing a big red button labeled “FEED THE MASSES” once a week, doling out TV like it’s fucking rations.
Some more reasons why it sucks:
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You forget the plot (and the whole vibe) between episodes.
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If an episode sucks, you just wasted a week of anticipation for nothing.
It’s like walking out of a movie halfway through and coming back seven days later for the rest. Who does that?
How I cope? I refuse to watch until the entire season is out. I want to enjoy the story properly, on my own time, without this drip-fed nonsense.
Back in the day, TV was just cheap filler for people with nothing better to do—endless soap operas where the most exciting thing that happened in a week was somebody’s amnesia curing or a long-lost twin showing up. Who had time for that?
But now? TV has evolved into something better than movies. We get deeper storytelling (no rushed 2-hour limits), higher production value (some shows look more cinematic than blockbusters), actual character development (instead of cramming arcs into a single film)
Yet studios still release episodes weekly like it’s 1985 and we’re all waiting around for Days of Our Lives. Newsflash: We’re not.
You seem to be missing the point of why they do it. It’s to keep the public talking about it. They realized when you dump the whole season, people will talk about it for maybe a month, if you’re lucky. But if you slow drip it and keep people in anticipation, the show is talked about for longer, which helps lure new people in to watch. Is it better for the consumer? No, not really. Is it better for the studios and their bottom line? Yeah, probably.
After all I suppose if you release the whole thing people will watch fast and unsubscribe but if you release it over two months that’s twice the sub money
Plus if the show becomes a smash hit halfway through the season, you might get more money out of advertisers