Or just wait until the 8th movie. Treat it like I treat most articles now that are like “This was the Beatle’s biggest regret!”. The first 4-5 paragraphs will be total fluff and now I immediately scroll to about the halfway point where they actually address the headline.
Tbf, there is often a proportional reward (multiple seasons of good TV being quite a bit longer than the movies that get good).
Also, with how pacing, budgets and casts work in the industry, a movie often ends up having more in terms of emotional investment and new information than an equivalent length of TV. So the effort to watch a movie is not the same as watching an hour and a half of TV (on average).
Indeed there are some series that are so SLOW and repetitive, like if they’re designed to be “watched” when you’re doing something else
Three at most unless someone has informed me that it picks up later. Game of Thrones started getting interesting after a lot of time learning about the characters, for example. Two if it doesn’t have a reputation as something that I really ought to watch. Less than one if I find myself annoyed right away.
I tried watching Lost on Netflix for the first time. Yes, I know it is an old show at this point but I never bothered with it when it was the thing to watch. Well I couldn’t get past the incredibly ridiculous behavior of everyone, some of the characters were painfully clichéd, the way it quickly felt like a soap opera was too much, etc. I had to stop after 3 episodes. I even read the wikis on it and the plot becomes a mess very quickly.
Now if I had only given Seinfeld 3-4 episodes I would’ve cut it off before it hit its stride. I think for comedies it can take an entire season to get up to speed. The King of Queens took about a year to get its structure together. Arrested Development is one show that came out of the gate full speed and continued to hone it characters. F is for Family is an animated show that really started pretty good. The Simpsons early years have a dramatically different feel for the characters over time as the Simpson family became more extreme in their characterizations. Homer and Bart felt much more human in the early years.
20 yo television rarely holds up.
There’s no clear answer.
I gave Invasion 4 episodes before I moved on. Foundation hooked me from the start because it was definitely a show made for me, but it definitely got an order of magnitude better in season 2. Bojack Horseman wasn’t slow, because again, I felt it was paced right.
Generally have a tough time, especially with streaming, to stick with something past Season 3 (looking at you, Breaking Bad).
It’s hard to infinitely amp up the stakes without going off the rails.
I dunno, BB was an outlier for me in that it kept getting better. We’re there some crap filler episodes? Of course. Did the story wander a bit? Sure. But I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.
It’s also worth noting that many of these shows from the traditional TV days were a once a week affair and weren’t intended to be binged. It was a different way of watching back then.
I had a different problem with breaking bad, but it killed my watching at around the same point: I just couldn’t stomach what a terrible human being Walter is. I dropped it after he (almost?) sexually assaulted his wife, and then years later someone managed to convince me to pick it up again and I dropped it once more when he allowed Jesse’s girlfriend to die as he watched
I know the point is that Walter is the bad guy, despite how many chuds idolize him and his Heisenberg persona, but fuck.
The Godfather II is one of the rare movies series where a sequel was better than the first.
Empire strikes back
Terminator II
Star Trek II
Batman the dark knight
Indiana Jones and the last crusade
James Bond from Russia with love
The good, the bad and the ugly
aliens
Paddington 2
Toy story 2
Avengers endgame
Top gun maverick
Blade Runner 2049
Mad max fury road
Try as I might I did not see an answer to the headline question anywhere in the article.
It says it with the plots and such. It seems to say that by episode 7 is when people’s impressions, on the average, become positive.
Yay, a dataisbeautiful post!
