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RE: Have you noticed that some TV series are superior to movies?

Posted by RGA on April 19, 2018 at 19:30:30:
TV Series are also gaining in terms of special effects such as Star Trek Discovery and at the time BattleStar Galactica and Dr. Who.

There is generally far more character development on a TV show than most films which are typically good to about 4 characters.

Some shows do drag things out too much but I'd far rather watch the likes of Dexter, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Broadchurch, I Claudius, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Star Trek TV series (over the movies), etc than most films.

The acting is also top shelf on TV as well with many crossovers today. Back in the day you were a movie actor or a TV actor and the former seemed better but now that's not the case.

TV can give you vast sprawling epics.

Even cable shows like the West Wing was smarter and better acted than every film of that genre.

I would say it depends on whether you are big on the "look" of a movie in terms of inventive cinematography as that is where TV is under a time frame to get episodes out where film may still win. It kind of depends what you look for in your movies. But I would rather watch the entire battle Star Gallactica or DS9 TV series than all the Star Wars films put together. And it's NOT close.