God so accurate on Schitt’s. A friend recommended that show and when me and the wife got past epi 1 we were like ‘wow this is hot garbage’. Yeah no, just setting up and showing you how horrible they were initially which I think makes their transformations that much more impactful later in the show.
Today people are obsessed with starting at season 1 and watching all the show. But, not all shows require that type of viewing. I grew up in the times of syndication and cable TV. You didn’t get to watch the show from the start. You just hop up on whatever was on the air that day. It’s perfectly fine to skip shitty seasons and episodes and only watching the bangers. There are very few series that actually have perfect records where every single episode is worth watching. I don’t understand people who endure 45 minutes of awful TV to experience 3 seconds of a dialogue that will somehow become relevant 4 seasons later.
Back then, the way to watch shows was to randomly catch an episode whenever they were aired, because most of them didn’t focus on a 36 episode incomprehensible knot of twists and surprises. They were self contained with a quiet background story arc that you could pick back at any time.
Yeah I’m in agreement here as well. As someone going in blind though you tend to pass judgement based on what you first see. In the age of streaming most people are going to start on S01E01. I definitely get your point.
God so accurate on Schitt’s. A friend recommended that show and when me and the wife got past epi 1 we were like ‘wow this is hot garbage’. Yeah no, just setting up and showing you how horrible they were initially which I think makes their transformations that much more impactful later in the show.
Today people are obsessed with starting at season 1 and watching all the show. But, not all shows require that type of viewing. I grew up in the times of syndication and cable TV. You didn’t get to watch the show from the start. You just hop up on whatever was on the air that day. It’s perfectly fine to skip shitty seasons and episodes and only watching the bangers. There are very few series that actually have perfect records where every single episode is worth watching. I don’t understand people who endure 45 minutes of awful TV to experience 3 seconds of a dialogue that will somehow become relevant 4 seasons later.
Back then, the way to watch shows was to randomly catch an episode whenever they were aired, because most of them didn’t focus on a 36 episode incomprehensible knot of twists and surprises. They were self contained with a quiet background story arc that you could pick back at any time.
Yeah I’m in agreement here as well. As someone going in blind though you tend to pass judgement based on what you first see. In the age of streaming most people are going to start on S01E01. I definitely get your point.