The original post: /r/television by /u/oniwaban-shu on 2024-12-22 03:05:19.
I’ve noticed that almost every limited series that’s been produced rarely ever builds an audience/cult following. People often watch limited series once and then never look back again. Why is that?
Is it because of the format? It’s not like runtime makes that much of a difference because we’ve seen so many films with a runtime shorter than 150 minutes get a huge cult following with people talking about them DECADES after their release. We’ve seen TV shows with only 2 seasons (16 episodes or less in total) that have a massive following. Even the most popular and most highly acclaimed limited series rarely ever build an audience for some odd reason.
Compare releasing a 12 episode limited series all at once vs splitting that into half by releasing 6 episodes then releasing the remaining 6 after a year as the 2nd season and somehow the split seasons format will have a bigger audience than the 12 episode limited series format.