Four blockbuster streaming and cable series dominated the discourse — raising questions about the benefits of weekly, rather than binge-friendly, rollouts — but there were less flashy and expensive gems to discover as well.
will stretch its initial run through November — so let’s start with the competition, Angie. Rank your four overpriced, IP-driven children! much pity for four shows that had strong branding, heavy marketing and huge budgets already in their favor…but it is a tough balance to strike: figuring out how to deliver a spinoff/prequel/what-have-you that feels familiar but not stale, interconnected yet independent. did a surprisingly good job of this, at least up until the very prequel-y finale.
What do you think the success of these four shows says about the never-ending battle between binge and weekly rollouts? I remember when Netflix first popularized the binge. It was new! It was thrilling! It was a powerful way to dominate the pop cultural conversation, pushing viewers to blaze through an entire season over a Friday night just so they’d know what everyone else was talking about come Saturday brunch.
But that only works when you actually can get a critical mass of people watching the same thing at once. That’s much harder to do in the Streaming Wars era. These days, if I miss out on a binge show in its first weekend, there’s a good chance that by the next, it’s already under an avalanche of headlines and memes about the 18 million There are always exceptions, obviously, and it’s not like weekly installments guarantee attention and acclaim either.
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