The original post: /r/television by /u/panix199 on 2026-02-08 05:58:48+00:00.
Person of Interest (2011) has a quite interesting popularity on reddit. It has a lot of procedural episodes (first season had 23 episodes. 23!) with a lot of filler episodes, but still progressing the mainplot in a good manner of pacing. Some of the episodes are ranked among the top highest rated tv-episodes of all time on IMDB (well deserved!) After reading about it being released on Netflix soonish, I have been wondering, could a show like this, especially with topics like AI, privacy, spy-technology etc. and having that many episodes per season still be made in a way it was done back then right now? Shows that have a lot of episodes, a lot of filler per season, yet still progressing and being quite entertaining despite a lot of content (in the current age of a lot of quality shows having only 6 - 8 episodes every 2-3 years per season) that could have purpose?