When a TV show or other forms of art run long, they can be worth our time, our television critic writes. But in some cases, abbreviation is best.
I was watching some episodes of a television show, which shall remain nameless if only because I can't remember the name, and was more than usually struck by the thought that if it were only half as long it would have been twice as good. The plot and the performers drowned in what someone had deemed the necessity of filling 10 hours of streaming television. This observation is not unique to that series, whatever it was.
Most artists eventually backed off from this madness, even before CDs went out of style and LPs went back in. Historically, a feature film ran typically between 90 and 120 minutes, because film is expensive and theater owners reckoned their profits on how many times a movie could be shown in a day. There were exceptions — films whose very length asserted their importance, going back nearly a century to D.W. Griffith's three and a half hour 'Intolerance.
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