There are some quality series that are out there and I really get tucked into a lot of them. There is a sea of crap out there between good series islands though and for some reason the crap series don't seem to have much issue getting released on time.
The days of dropping an entire season on us at once is behind us now unfortunately as the industry start to start looking more and more like increasingly expensive cable packages, but I actually don't have a problem with episodes being released one week at a time. In many ways I prefer it this way because there is less inclination to binge watch something until the middle of the night and screw up my tomorrow because I can't say no to "just one more episode."
What I do have a problem with though, is when series need to or desire to, take multiple years off between seasons.
Season 3 of House of the Dragon will be released late next month and when I heard that news on some site that I look at every now and then, I had honestly forgotten not only that the show was going to have a new season this year, but that the series even existed at all.
It's not that HoD is not a good show, I think it is absolutely brilliant, it is because of the fact that in the past near 2 years so much has happened and aside from some major CGI events that took place in season 2 (or 1 for that matter) I don't really remember what the eff was going on in this show. Dragons are mucking about and killing kids and what not and a bunch of blonde people and black folks with blonde dreads or something are either fighting with one another or they are on the same side. I simply do not recall.
I suppose we have reached the point where my mind is just too full of information and I don't have a place for any more storage... or, 2 years between season is too long.
There are a lot of excuses as to WHY it takes 2 years between seasons but I think those excuses are lies. Game of Thrones had just as good (perhaps better) production value and acting yet the managed to get that one out the door every year on time. So what's changed? Technology has gotten better so it can't be blamed on that.
I think we have come to a point where the normal release for big blockbusters is simply going to be 2 years now. I quite enjoyed Pluribus but it turns out they are shooting for 2 or maybe even 3 year schedules for season releases or at least that was the last I heard. I think this will be more probematic for them because Rhea Seehorn could be considerably different looking over the course of 6-10 years. Anything with a child actor in it would suffer badly from this timeline.
If you are a fan of HoD or any show I suppose, it could be seen as something nice for you if like me, you need to spend several weeks before the release date rewatching all the old episodes because you don't really remember what has happened.
I guess there are worse curses than this.
According to the "real reasons" that I am sure is a pack of lies to keep us on the line is that they are claiming that visuals take longer and now they need more time... bullshit
another claim is that streaming services take 6 months to gather audience data in order to decide how to utilize the following season... I think this is also bullshit because if they really did this, there wouldn't have been a season 2 of The Rings of Power.
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I was never a Dr. Who fan, but I really love this character in HoD
What I really think is going on here is that they figure they can keep people subscribed to a streaming service if they offer then teaser trailers every now and then reminding them why they have HBO Max in the first place. This, combined with it being less than one click to cancel your subscription is probably why a lot of people hang on to subscriptions that they probably don't use very often. The people who own the services would never admit this, but I would be willing to bet that in their secret board room meetings that this is exactly why it takes 2 years for the few good series they have to get released. Hell, they might have finished with it a year ago for all we know and they are just sitting on it waiting for a drop in subscriptions before they release it.
Whatever the reason is, and I don't really care, I know that I have a good 10 hours of watching ahead of me in order to be prepared for the season 3 premiere on June 21st.