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OhMeadhbh • today at 4:51 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

   Meh.  Streaming services seem to do a thing where they put
   a  lot of  effort into  the first  season to  try to  lure
   people away from rival  services.  There's less motivation
   to make  subsequent series  decent.  I  sort of  hate what
   Amazon did  to The Expanse,  but we  did get at  least two
   decent seasons out of them.   All the series you list here
   were MUCH too  slow to maintain my interest.   I will give
   Apple props  for making  second seasons that  were decent.
   Third and subsequent seasons probably should have not been
   made.  But... if you like  them... you like them.  I'm not
   going to  argue you shouldn't.   I really liked  the first
   episode of Pluribus,  the first season of  For All Mankind
   and Murderbot though they were all very different things.

   I will argue  that a steady diet of MCU  movies has dulled
   our visual taste-buds.  As an experiment, try listening to
   just the audio track.  With the exception of Severance and
   Murderbot it's not hard to follow the story without seeing
   any of the action.  Film is supposed to be a visual medium
   using composition and motion to contextualize the words of
   the narrative.  Most of the items on the list fail in this
   regard.

   You can  argue that  Television is  a writer's  medium and
   that we  just have  to cope  with smaller  budgets, (MUCH)
   slower pacing  and creators  who are  more used  to having
   readers   create   their   own  visuals   in   their   own
   imaginations.  I think that's a cop out.  Guess that's why
   I'm not in the writers' guild.

   But... if you enjoy  something.  Don't apologize and don't
   let jerks like me diminish  your enjoyment.  For what they
   are, most  of these series  are entertaining.  I  just get
   distracted thinking about how  much better they could have
   been.