Nope. I love a lot of aspects of this show. I’m not a fan of forcing a show to last x amount of seasons but we’ll see how it pans out long term. For now I’m enjoying every single episode and I can’t wait until the next one comes out. It’s not without its flaws but it brings a lot of fresh aspects to the table.
Is saying you have a four season plan the same as forcing a show to last x number of seasons? Four isn’t some arbitrary number, it’s how many seasons the creator of the show thinks it will take. Vince wants to tell a story and he is saying I need four seasons of episodes to do it.
It’s not a hard limit, but on the other hand it is an agreed amount of time between stakeholders which carries weight and expectations. Creative work does tend to defy fitting into time constraints. I’m not saying it’s impossible to harmonize agreed time and creative work, but an agreed time constraint will be impactful in the creative work itself. We’ve all seen so many instances of excellent series turning average because they dragged for too long, or terrible endings because they ran out of time or had the carpet pulled out of their feet.
It’s not a bad show. It’s got a good premise and it’s produced well, but its pacing is divisive. I personally found the pace ok when I could binge a few episodes back to back (I started a few week late), but now I’m watching week-to-week I’m finding the pace too slow.
I like it being slow from a conceptual standpoint as Carol is slowly learning about them, slowly coming to terms with her own grief, and it emphasizes her isolation. I think it would diminish those elements if they were condensed. That said, a lot of people I talk to mirror the pacing complaints. If I recall correctly, Breaking Bad didn’t really take off initially either, so I’m hopeful that happens here too since I already like the show.
Breaking Bad started fairly quickly, getting to the point of the show basically all within the span of the first episode. But the context is a bit different. Breaking Bad’s pilot was filmed to be shopped around, and so was meant to basically tell a complete enough story to encapsulate the entire premise.
Pluribus is a show that was picked up just from the reputation of its creator. Apple TV greenlit multiple seasons before filming had even begun, the premise was kept secret all the way up to the premiere of the first episode, and so it has the liberty of being able to take its time getting to the point.
Better Call Saul, on the other hand, was similarly slow at first. And they spent way too much time in the first season trying to fit in as many Breaking Bad callbacks as they could before it really started going anywhere. But it was excellent when it came into its own.
Am I the only person that loves this show?
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Nope. I love a lot of aspects of this show. I’m not a fan of forcing a show to last x amount of seasons but we’ll see how it pans out long term. For now I’m enjoying every single episode and I can’t wait until the next one comes out. It’s not without its flaws but it brings a lot of fresh aspects to the table.
Is saying you have a four season plan the same as forcing a show to last x number of seasons? Four isn’t some arbitrary number, it’s how many seasons the creator of the show thinks it will take. Vince wants to tell a story and he is saying I need four seasons of episodes to do it.
It’s not a hard limit, but on the other hand it is an agreed amount of time between stakeholders which carries weight and expectations. Creative work does tend to defy fitting into time constraints. I’m not saying it’s impossible to harmonize agreed time and creative work, but an agreed time constraint will be impactful in the creative work itself. We’ve all seen so many instances of excellent series turning average because they dragged for too long, or terrible endings because they ran out of time or had the carpet pulled out of their feet.
No, I love it. It’s my favorite show that premiered this year.
It’s not a bad show. It’s got a good premise and it’s produced well, but its pacing is divisive. I personally found the pace ok when I could binge a few episodes back to back (I started a few week late), but now I’m watching week-to-week I’m finding the pace too slow.
I like it being slow from a conceptual standpoint as Carol is slowly learning about them, slowly coming to terms with her own grief, and it emphasizes her isolation. I think it would diminish those elements if they were condensed. That said, a lot of people I talk to mirror the pacing complaints. If I recall correctly, Breaking Bad didn’t really take off initially either, so I’m hopeful that happens here too since I already like the show.
Breaking Bad started fairly quickly, getting to the point of the show basically all within the span of the first episode. But the context is a bit different. Breaking Bad’s pilot was filmed to be shopped around, and so was meant to basically tell a complete enough story to encapsulate the entire premise.
Pluribus is a show that was picked up just from the reputation of its creator. Apple TV greenlit multiple seasons before filming had even begun, the premise was kept secret all the way up to the premiere of the first episode, and so it has the liberty of being able to take its time getting to the point.
Better Call Saul, on the other hand, was similarly slow at first. And they spent way too much time in the first season trying to fit in as many Breaking Bad callbacks as they could before it really started going anywhere. But it was excellent when it came into its own.