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What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

loved season 1 of Prison Break, season 2 was mostly ok but had a lot of wasted potential, and everything after that was completely off of the rails.

I felt very similarly to Heroes. It started very strong, but fizzled out quickly and eventually became a caricature of itself.

Unfortunately a product of a writers strike at the time. Other shows also got hit, Bones was one that comes to mind. Theres also the fact that it didn't really seem well thought out on what to do with prisonbreak after they got out. How do you keep that same sort of pre-planning and genius level work that micheal put in to it all. but it was an eventful show. I fear that late 00s was the last time we got a big lineup of all those types of big shows. Streaming is all well and good, but its taken away the week-by-week talking about shows that used to occur. You watch the episode, the next day everyone was talking about it, coming up with theories and ideas, now its not a given that people all watch it at the same time, and with binge watching it has, for better or worse, just killed that sort of community that existed around tv shows.

[–] aMockTie@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately a product of a writers strike at the time. Other shows also got hit, Bones was one that comes to mind.

Oof I forgot about that. Well written entertainment (not at all) surprisingly depends on talented and sufficiently compensated writers.

Theres also the fact that it didn't really seem well thought out on what to do with prisonbreak after they got out. How do you keep that same sort of pre-planning and genius level work that micheal put in to it all. but it was an eventful show.

I wish they would have found some way to tie up the whole conspiracy and end the show with the conclusion of the first season. We didn't need to see what happened afterwards, leave that to our imaginations. Unfortunately what followed was a clumsy attempt to reconcile the more fantastical elements with reality. We could have had another brilliant prison story like Shawshank, but instead we got a conspiracy theory soap opera.

I fear that late 00s was the last time we got a big lineup of all those types of big shows. Streaming is all well and good, but its taken away the week-by-week talking about shows that used to occur. You watch the episode, the next day everyone was talking about it, coming up with theories and ideas, now its not a given that people all watch it at the same time, and with binge watching it has, for better or worse, just killed that sort of community that existed around tv shows.

I don't think that kind of entertainment is entirely gone today, but it's certainly the exception rather than the rule. Outside of a few niches, I agree that you don't really see the same level of the week by week theory crafting and speculation that used to be so fun at the time. I hope someday that experience will be the norm again.