Stop making us wait so long between seasons of shows… please?
What is the appropriate amount of time to wait for a new season of a television show? It's not three years, that's for sure! https://t.co/yKe7zfGtYV
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) July 18, 2024
Television shows are really pushing the boundaries of what is an acceptable amount of time to make viewers wait between seasons. In the last several years, COVID and multiple strikes have played a part in why shows have taken long breaks. But those delays, among other factors, have caused the general attitude of the industry to shift, and that now years-long breaks are becoming the rule and not the exception.
• Euphoria will begin production on season 3 in January… almost exactly three years after its second season ended.
• Severance, won't return for season 2 until January, almost three years after it first hit Apple TV+.
• Bridgerton, it will likely be two years before it's ready, as if that's just the timeline now.
• Stranger Things is in the midst of its three-year gap between seasons 4 and 5. And by the time
• Yellowstone returns for the back half of its fifth season, it will be nearly two years since we finished the first half.
Remember the days when a show would air its finale in May and return in the fall?
Production on an entire season of television has to be completely done and polished before a single episode can air. That only applies to binge drops. They clearly need a new way of approaching streaming content,
With the amount of television out today, there is the risk of viewers just… forgetting what happened, and perhaps caring a little (or a lot) less. Yes, there are recaps before new seasons, and yes, diehard fans will rewatch certain series, but why lose even one fan because you saw the freedom that streaming offers storytellers and you took it a step too far?
There are a handful of stories that might genuinely need that much time - in large part due to post-production work and VFX, etc. - but those should be the exception.
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