Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season?
freamon@endlesstalk.org 2 years ago
It can certainly seem that way sometimes. Shows like The Handmaid’s Tale have been circling the drain of their own premise for a few years now. A big part of it, I think, is that they want to keep their main cast for as long as possible, which limits the options of what can happen.
Give me a mini-series, or even an anthology series, any day.
Shows like The Handmaid’s Tale have been circling the drain of their own premise for a few years now.
As far as I’m concerned, that show ended when the first season did (which corresponded with the ending of the book).
When I heard a season 2 was happening, I thought it might be based around the book’s epilogue. Instead, it’s the same story dragged out long past where it was supposed to end.
I still don’t get why so many were relating handmaids tale to real life. Just as annoying as those who think everything is 1984. Its a YA series, and not a particularly great one at that.
Not sure about the show, but Margaret Atwood has been at pains to point out that pretty much everything in her books has a real life precedent (albeit in different places at different times).
Child appropriations under the military juntas in Latin America, for one.
Do you really not see the parallels to real life of a religiously-ruled country who has enshrined in law ways to take control of fertile women’s reproductive rights? Really?
The US is becoming more and more Giléad with every passing day.
Part of the reason why I’m really into K-dramas now. It often doesn’t feel like it’s just dragging, but actually has nice pacing.
Weird, I feel the exact opposite about most k-dramas. Good premise but then take forever to tell their story.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 years ago
I love the limited scope of British TV series. They even managed to do only a few seasons of Law & Order, for crying out loud.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s not a creative or artistic choice; British channels simply have minuscule budgets compared to their American counterparts.
Sternhammer@aussie.zone 2 years ago
And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.
Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 2 years ago
Look at Black Mirror. The British seasons are some of the best TV ever made. The American (Netflix) seasons have often been meh or downright awful, and derivative of the original seasons.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 years ago
I think it’s for the best. Too much money in the US is spent on bullshit.
In any case, US versions of British series are almost certainly worse.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sherlock proves it. It was given too much budget and time and what we got was overproduced bullshit.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Couldn’t agree more. The final season was such nonsense it soured the whole show and I’ve never bothered to watch it through again (ignoring the incessant “tell not show” with Sherlock being brilliant but never really showing that, and how the mysteries were never deductible by the audience.