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Which format of video entertainment do you like better: Television Series or Movies? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One of the major problems with TV that I've noticed is that you can have a great premise and great starting season, then the show gets cancelled for some stupid reason. I often find movies to have higher quality than TV. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Love a great movie, but the hardest itch is best scratched with a mini series. By that I mean a series that is a finished story in one season. Sometimes they add another season, but it's almost never as good as the stand alone first season.

It's the perfect medium I think. Long enough to tell a full story and not leave too many details out (like in movies) but also to the point and finite, not like a series where you're already watching season 8 because you feel like you have to, just to see the ending of a story that might never come.

Examples are: Band of brothers, Chernobyl

TL;DR: Mini series is the best of both worlds IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I second this. Mini series that are like 8 to 12 hour long episodes are perfect. Long enough to tell a full story and hit all the beats but short enough that you don't have to sit through a bunch of bullshit filler that adds nothing to the story.