When your favorite show finally returns, but you can't remember what happened last season 🤔
Last week the premiere date for the final season ofwas announced: The first half is set to air on AMC starting in April, and the second half will premiere in August. At first, I was elated; this has been one of my absolute favorite shows of the past several years, the rare exercise in capitalizing on a pre-existing franchise that's actually managed to distinguish itself as a great endeavor in its own right.recollection of where the show last left off.
I could totally be imagining all or some or most of these things. Like I said, I'm fuzzy on the details. I think I've got what I'll call"hiatus brain."Hiatus brain is exactly what it sounds like — it's what happens when a narrative show leaves its viewers alone for too long before returning to continue the narrative. Once the lag between seasons begins to surpass, say, 10-12 months, the mind has a significantly harder time picking up where the show left off.
You then have to scour the internet for decent recaps or season finale reviews in order to feel up to speed — and yet even then, you may worry some important details have been left out and you're going into the new installments woefully unprepared: Wait, who formed an alliance with who and why? And does so-and-so know so-and-so betrayed them yet, or are they still in the dark?
The pandemic is, of course, partially to blame for hiatuses of some of your favorite shows. And in the case oflast year. But even before COVID, this was becoming A Thing in the realm of episodic television, as the concept of time has collapsed into a flat circle where cable and streaming productions are no longer beholden to a strict primetime schedule.
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