Don't get me wrong -- I've loved the show for years -- but they sometime drag (not to mention fill up my DVR) and I can't tell you how many times I've finished watching a 2-hour "Dateline" and immediately thought "They totally could've told that whole story in 1 hour"
"Bltch, what you DON'T know about me -- I can just about squeeze into the Grand xxxxing Canyon!"
I love dateline & like when it's two hours. I get tired of repeats & it says it's a new show.
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I agree. It begins to feel repetitive with the two hour episodes.
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Yes. NBC is clearly not investing in enough other programming, so padded episodes and numerous repeats are the cheap, easy options.
shareThe two-hour episodes are annoying. They had one last night. Really dragged it out. One other thing is for some reason Dateline will decide to leave out some important aspects of the case. if you go online and look at the trial in the local newspaper i.e. the newspaper of the city where the crime occurred, you will read some other facts about the case that Dateline did not mention. I don't know why they do that, sometimes those facts make the case make a lot more sense.
shareThe 2 hours are my favorites, that way I know it's going to be an amazing story.
I'm a Dateline fan and a huge Murder Mystery fan, so I truly love their story telling unlike 20/20.
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I agree. Sometimes the 2 hour episodes just drag on.
shareVery true. They had one on last night that did that. FINALLY in the last half hour they got around to the interview with the guy who the story was about. I nearly fell asleep.
shareI find the 2 hour long episodes hard to endure. I tend to DVR them and fast forward. I end up getting the gist of the story without having to commit to the 2 hour long haul.
shareTotally agree. It's pretty obvious. Maybe it's a lot to cram into 1-hour, like some of the cable channel repeats have done, but they really should do 90 minutes. There is so much unnecessary repetition to fill the 2-hour timeslot.
Obviously the thought process is that you can join the show in-progress at pretty much any point in the first 90 minutes and be caught up, because after every commercial break they pretty much re-summarize the entire story!