It’s bullshit. The formula is to release seasons every couple years to maximize engagement.
Is it just me or do the names get dumber each time?
It’s weird they were able to get Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul done back to back and I consider that grade A television. This new format of smaller shows every two years just helps contribute to cancellations.
Got any examples?
I think it’s the opposite…waiting two years is what they believe is the sweet spot so people mistake effort put in by waiting for liking the next season…they’re just doing what gets the most eyes on the shows.
The formula is currently the least possible amount of episodes over the longest possible time. Won’t change until people become less instead of more interested after 2 years.
I wonder if Stranger Things will change anything…they waited so long in between seasons they have 30 year old high school kids, and nobody I know is up to date on the show.
I would say cast delays but in Pluribus case there are only 3 main characters. Maybe Koumba and Laxmi as support.
They also have four of the characters in the US now, so international shooting is less of an issue. Not to mention they’ve been doing a lot of vfx volume shooting to cut corners already.
he doesn’t want to rush the story
This frightens me. This sounds like they don’t have a plan. He said the show will have 4 seasons, but after the first one, they don’t want to rush the story?
What is going on?
I didn’t feel like this is the kind of show that would work well without a plan. Writers think writing science fiction gives them so many options that they don’t need to know where this is heading in the next few years. I hate that.
Alternative headline:
After this season finale of Pluribus, you are asking yourself how the story will continue? The showrunners don’t know either.
I can’t help but wonder exactly what has changed in the past decade that prevents shots from airing annually, like they used to?
TV series used to release 20ish episodes a season, and seemingly would alternate their timeslots between two shows for full-year entertainment.
What’s changed is networks are functionally gone, and they’ve figured out that 2 years is currently the appropriate amount of time to maximize engagement.
Won’t change until we ignore shows that take too long to come out…which isn’t happening.
lot has changed for “prestige” tv like this which is basically film quality production.
streamers are tightening their purse strings to try to be more profitable. and they don’t produce shows in parallel as much anymore. sometimes for budget/logistics, sometimes to stretch content or generate hype.
higher profile actors and bigger crews cause scheduling to be more complicated.
shows with global production have more travel.
post production takes longer especially for action/sci-fi with lots of vfx. vfx houses are overloaded.
writing actually takes longer to polish for shorter seasons because there can be no filler.
and on top of all that the pandemic and 2023 writers strike added delays to everything.
Always think of how life of pi vfx team won the award after they had already shutdown due to the movie causing them to go bankrupt
All I hear is negative in the vfx world, even vfx moves to where subsidies are so it’s kinda dead in America. Ppl end up working in games, ads, medical field, etc. way more often than movies/shows or are transitioning to that.
Someone introduce him to the people that make Slow Horses. That shows production moves right along without losing quality.
If you take more than a year between seasons you’re just milking it.
Its why I haven’t gotten around to watching it. It’ll likely be couple years or longer before another season comes out, so I track shows to watch in the future these days if the sentiment towards it is positive when it is complete.
Same. Honestly kind of kills the immersion for me when actors age several years between seasons.
Like a patient gamer. :)
I don’t blame you… so many times you have a great show and it goes all “game of thrones” on you.
I really hope pluribus doesn’t go that way. It’s first season is fantastic.
Yeah, got burned too many times with shows that started great, but longer years between seasons didn’t lead to a good follow up.
I stick to mini series these days for new shows like the Fargo seasons which are self contained.
Yeah agreed. I pretty well don’t start anything new unless I know it had a plan. Pluribus is a little different for me. Due to better call Saul and breaking bad.
The show that turned that for me… was almost human. With Karl Urban and John Larroquette as the shows villain.
I mean… a comedian as a villain? Sign me up.
But fox killed it.
So I don’t usually start a show unless it’s really establishedm. There are exceptions. But I’m not going to pick up a new major network show for many years. Example being tracker. Looks fun. But Iits on CBS so is probably dumb. Lol
Production seems to be moving about as slowly as each episode.
Take to long gets canceled or pulls a Stranger Things and people will lose interest. Hope Apple doesn’t expect me to keep paying for their service . If Silo doesn’t air next month or two I’m going cancel until this show returns.
Edit: also way things are going we won’t have a 2027 to wait. Soon as the AI bubble pops you can see shows like this not being funded.
I am glad that everyone involved is getting time to tell the story right.
And yet he’s got a plan for 4 seasons?
Damn, when I started watching I thought it would be a one or two seasons show at most.
Link contains spoilers for season 1, if you’ve not seen it.
You can view the history of the cul-de-sac they built in the historical aerial photos (click the icon with the globe and anticlockwise arrow): https://earth.google.com/web/@35.16545569,-106.74621795,1675.42242618a,303.69425338d,35y,0h,0t,0r/, which gives a nice insight into how long it took to make season 1.
They broke ground somewhere between 2023-05-30 (area completely undisturbed) and 2023-08-30 (only first level of houses finished construction).
The next images, a year later on 2024-08-30 is from the filming of episode 7.
There are two more from 2025-05-30 and 2025-09-30, which don’t show much of anything.
Obviously they don’t need to build the houses again, but clearly a heck of a lot of time went into the rest of season 1, so a similar wait for season 2 doesn’t seem unexpected.
