People were ready to bing watch the new season and then boom they decide to release it 1 episode per week as opposed to all at once like they did the first season. Talk about hurting the series momentum.
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They probably have to due to the pandemic. All the editing and stuff that hasn't been completed yet. Anyway, that's my guess.
Just do what I do. Wait til the season is finished airing before you start watching it. Then you can watch it on your schedule.
shareIt's only 5 weeks and they gave us 3 for the premiere, I don't mind.
What does suck is that the writing seems to have gone downhill, effects budget seems to have been reduced and Karl Urban's character in some episodes is barely doing cameo appearances.
Episode 4 was boring. Only interesting thing in the show now is Stormfront.
shareThe only good episode so far this season has been episode 3... the rest have been mehhh... not much happens, they feel like filler, I can understand this happening when it's 22 episodes per year plus all of the restrictions of network TV... but there's no excuse when it's barely 8 episodes.
Amazon should have delayed this season until they had the right scripts... but they seem desperate for a hit.
I think this series has a very limited lifespan to be honest. There is only so much you can do with the concept.
shareHell yes it did. Season 1 of the Boys was great, and the jump to season 2 felt like the jump from season 4 to season 5 in Game of Thrones. Just a steep dropoff.
shareI'm wondering if they did it this way to stop the "free preview" crowd or something like that. You know, those that wait for a series or all episodes of a show to land and then watch and then cancel the preview time...
shareYes I think the business model of releasing an entire season at once was never going to work permanently, and probably they never planned it to stay that way. It was all to lure us in, and now it's going to go back to the way that it was before, which was a more stable business model, most likely. I don't mind, because it has broken the stranglehold of cable, where I had to pay a lot of money for 60 channels made up of almost all reality shows (which is why I canceled cable. I hate reality shows).
shareWell, on network TV you have to wait weekly for the next episode. I see nothing wrong with having a little patience. Of course, that is probably the problem nowadays. Too many impatient people with short attention spans. Want everything delivered on a platter when they want it.
shareI read an article where the producers (or whoever was in charge of the show) said they decided to release it that way because they wanted to have more "discussion" around it...more buzz.
Last year it made quite the buzz, but it just came and went...they wanted to extend that this year. And apparently it was their decision...had nothing to do with Netflix.
And personally, I hope they don't pull this shit again...I've waited since the end of last season for the beginning of this one and it felt like they pulled a last minute switcheroo here.
Like spoonfeeding your children, I sure hope we don't go back to being allowed only one episode at a time like this with other shows. I'm an adult, dammit...and there's certain things we've come to expect from Netflix's product and this was some bullcrap I was looking forward to a full damn day of being sucked into this show!
I'll get over it, but still...man was I ticked when I realized what they'd done lol
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LOL nono, I was being facetious there some...a little silly. It was meant to read that way glad it gave you a smile
STILL some bullcrap though!!
I prefer it. When a show comes out once a week, most people watch it when it airs, and we can all discuss it the following day. When it is all released at once, people "binge" at their own pace, and you don't get the episode-by-episode interaction. Personally, that's the one quality of pre-streaming TV I miss-- the fact that everyone watched a given show at the same time, and then talked about it afterwards. It's one of many aspects of community that the internet has taken away from society, to our detriment, I believe.
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