Streaming remakes are missing the episode count trick

Rewatching old shows from the 90s and early 2000s got me thinking. Those had 22 episodes a season, easy. Now everything drops with 8 episodes, sometimes 6. You can binge a whole show in one weekend, then it's gone for 18 months. I heard a producer say filler episodes are dead. But those filler episodes built the characters. They made you care about the side people. New shows skip all that and go straight to plot. Then the finale hits and nobody feels anything. Has anyone else gone back to older seasons just for that slower burn?

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the_anthony19d ago

The "filler episodes are dead" thing is kind of overblown honestly. Like yeah 8 episode seasons are short, and sure you can crush one in a weekend, but plenty of those old 22 episode seasons were mostly junk. Nobody's rewatching the clip show episode or the one where the cast does a dream sequence to save money. I'd say maybe 6 of those 22 actually mattered and the rest was padding because the network needed to fill a timeslot. The good short shows still make you feel stuff, it's just a different kind of writing. Maybe the real issue is there's way more shows now so none of them get room to breathe, not that filler is gone.

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