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I have enjoyed some series that last many seasons and take 60-70 hours to tell a story, and to develop the characters therein. Most movies offer meagre fare by comparison. Right now, I'm enjoying HBO's 'Big Love' which ran from 2006-11.
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Then it was the movie.
Now it's the season box set.
"To Learn Who Rules Over You, Simply Find Out Who You Are Not Allowed to Criticize."
-Voltaire
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.
Doesn't need to have a block buster opening weekend that draws in everybody for a fleecing.
the past 18 or so years.
Proportionately to movies it's where the best writing is.
The rest seems to fall in place behind that quite nicely.
It must work from a financial POV as well as an artistic one
since the quality of the best of the shows has stayed consistent
as well as the amount of quality shows.
It actually seems difficult to keep up with the best of them and still have a life.
This is the golden age of binge TV!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Yea, I've noticed. Commercials aren't an issue if you've got a DVR. Right now we're watching Trust, directed by Danny Boyle, (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours). Counterpart on Starz has a great John LeCarre movie vibe to it. Too many others to name over the years.
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I saw All the Money in the World when it came out last Christmas. Pretty interesting, pretty well done. I wondered if I needed to watch Trust when I already knew the story.
But Trust is remarkable. Danny Boyle makes films that pulse with life and music, and this long form TV series does the same. I'm loving the camera angles, the Italian scenery, the intricate interplay of current and past plot points that fill in blanks left open in earlier episodes. J. Paul Getty's hedonistic lifestyle is shown in much more detail than in the movie.
It is my favorite TV show of the moment.
Such that the rudeness overcomes interest in the story. It gets to me.
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