What's the thought process of splitting 10+ hours worth of content into 6-9 episodes and releasing them all at once/in 2 batches rather than splitting that into 12-18 episodes and releasing episod...

The original post: /r/television by /u/kabukabu_ on 2025-12-12 06:26:53+00:00.

Original Title: What’s the thought process of splitting 10+ hours worth of content into 6-9 episodes and releasing them all at once/in 2 batches rather than splitting that into 12-18 episodes and releasing episodes weekly?

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As a creator who worked hard on something for months if not years why would you want your product to have the Netflix structure of feature-length episodes, short seasons, and all episodes dropping at once?

Instead you could split that up into more episodes and a weekly schedule that way your series gets discussed for months generating buzz and hype around it and inviting more and more people to tune in to your show because of the discussion surrounding it. This is how you build a solid fanbase, a community.

I really want someone to explain to me what benefits comes from the Netflix model as opposed to the longer seasons, shorter episodes, weekly schedule model? Because in my mind the latter makes a lot more sense and should be the obvious choice.