Stale TV

I’ve been watching some returning TV series and I don’t want to say which ones (I know that’s annoying, sorry) but it just feels like they’ve gone stale.

I find my mind wandering, and checking the timeline to see how much is left.

It feels like the series architecture was never designed to go this long—that new crises are manufactured and thus not very interesting. Characters have long, static, sit-down scenes about their huge life dilemmas, and the filmmaking points towards cathartic emotion, but little is actually felt.

I may bail...but it doesn’t have to be this way. I found a lot of my favorite shows (the all-time greats) captivating right through the final cut to black, as it were (The Sopranos).

But others, like True Blood in particular, seemed to spin into all sorts of tiresome tangents.

Hard work for the creators, to sustain excellence!