Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season?
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year agoI 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 1 year ago
It’s not a creative or artistic choice; British channels simply have minuscule budgets compared to their American counterparts.
Sternhammer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.
Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Sherlock proves it. It was given too much budget and time and what we got was overproduced bullshit.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.