The problem I have with TV is that most of these stories with interesting characters drag on until they get cancelled, depriving me of my favourite part of any story: the ending. Most movies on the other hand have an ending, even if it's open.

Yeah, that’s a problem now a days.

I’ve pretty much taken to waiting for a series to end and then binge watching because too many I’ve been interested in just get canceled in the middle of the story.

Probably part of the problem since I don’t show up in the weekly viewing stats but, oh well.

The production quality of TV has exploded. The writing quality, on the other hand, has taken a notable nosedive in the last decade. A notable recent example are things like the newest Lord of the Rings show, or the Foundations series. Incredible production values hampered by awful writing. Dialogue in the last years, in particular, has been awful in 90% of TV. Basic dialogue rules (like don't say exactly what the character is thinking or feeling) are broken for the sake of expediency and simplifying for the lowest denominator. The golden age of TV was a fairly distinct moment in prestige television making where a showrunner and some writers had enormous control over the show's direction and tone. Nowadays, most shows, like most hollywood movies, have a stupid amount of producers and the writing feels like a committee of YA-book authors put together the season's scripts in a weekend. A lot of modern TV is the sausage meat in the content factory of streaming services.

TLoU, Severence, Succession all quite wonderful. Even stuff like Peacemaker. There are a lot of nuggets with great writing, it's just that is is just SO MUCH content now, that there is bound to be more crap than good stuff out there.

These are all non-episodic TV shows which have yet to conclude. I reserve judgement until they have concluded as to whether the writing will hold up. For the vast majority of these shows, writing is great for a few seasons, then nosedives because they can't figure out how to conclude it or the plot becomes an ever expanding fractal of loose ends.

The reason for this is simple. Due to the nature of how studios are run now, you gotta keep making the popular stuff until it ceases to be. Even if it was better to just leave it at one or two seasons. Everything has to be renewed to make evn more money and to offset the endless treadmill of cancelled-after-one-season garbage that Netflix and HBO etc are pumping out.

I love Succession, but I hope this 4th season is the last one.

EDIT: named the wrong season.

The upcoming Succession season is the 4th one and HBO as well as the show runners have confirmed that it will be the last and conclude.

Oh it's the 4th, not the 3rd, my bad.

Good.

>The reason for this is simple. Due to the nature of how studios are run now, you gotta keep making the popular stuff until it ceases to be. Even if it was better to just leave it at one or two seasons. Everything has to be renewed to make evn more money and to offset the endless treadmill of cancelled-after-one-season garbage that Netflix and HBO etc are pumping out.

Getting back to video games, this is what I fear about the talk of The Last of Us Part III; that story is told, move on.