I miss the x-of-the-week format, personally. We get 8 episode long miniseries every couple of years now and while they can be great I miss getting 24 episodes a year watching your favorite familiar characters working through entire story arcs in 48 minutes. Not every episode was great, and you got your Christmas episode and the flashback episode in there. But on balance I think it was great and miss it.
There’s also this new trend of making a series which becomes very popular and then waiting 4 years to make the second season. By that time it not only lost it’s relevance, but also the actors have very visibly aged.
I miss the x-of-the-week format, personally. We get 8 episode long miniseries every couple of years now and while they can be great I miss getting 24 episodes a year watching your favorite familiar characters working through entire story arcs in 48 minutes. Not every episode was great, and you got your Christmas episode and the flashback episode in there. But on balance I think it was great and miss it.
There’s also this new trend of making a series which becomes very popular and then waiting 4 years to make the second season. By that time it not only lost it’s relevance, but also the actors have very visibly aged.