You Will Grow Old Waiting for Your Favorite Show to Come Back

[Coventina]

Time moves slowly in Middle-earth. Ages last for millenniums. Elves are immortal. Villains menace the land, are defeated, then are nearly forgotten before they re-emerge eons later.

By this measure, it has been a blink of an eye since we last saw “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” on Amazon Prime Video. But in terms of our brief mortal lives and the traditional calendar of TV, it has been a while. Galadriel and company will return for Season 2 on Thursday, nearly two years to the day since Season 1 began in 2022.

This is the Ent-like pace at which TV moves these days. The “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” took nearly as long to come back for its second outing. “Severance,” likewise a member of the debut class of ’22, will return in January, almost three years since we last saw it. The teen drama “Euphoria,” whose second season began in January 2022, will start shooting a third season … sometime in 2025. By the time it airs, one assumes its characters will be eligible for Social Security.

More and more, rejoining a favorite series is like trying to remember the details of high school trigonometry. Which hobbit did what to whom? What did they do all day in that “Severance” office again? Was “Stranger Things” set in the 1980s, or was it actually made then?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/arts/television/rings-of-power-stranger-things-severance-return.html

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Interesting analysis, but he almost lost me in the second sentence.

Millenniums? Really?
Learn correct Latin you cretin!!



(kidding, kind of)

[hlthe2b]

1. Remember when a network tv series season was 22-28 episodes? Now most series--streaming or network

are 10 if we are lucky. More often 6 or 8. Sigh...

[Coventina]

2. Agreed! I wouldn't mind so much if they at least arrived in a timely fashion.

The kids in "Stranger Things" are going to be WAYYYY to old by the time the last season arrives.

[mahina]

3. Oh my goodness, nice to meet you! We can be bad-Latin-disapproving buddies!

The rest of it, eh...I am not.

[Nictuku]

4. I end up re-watching the previous season

My memory these days. So I usually re-watch the last episode (or more if I can't remember that even). I have the time, so not a big deal. I prefer watching series all at once, vs one episode a week. In those cases, sometimes I'll wait for the season to be done before watching it. Seasons are getting shorter and shorter. Used to be something like 24 a season, then down to 10, now I'm seeing only 8 episodes for many shows, and sometimes only 6! (It is over before you even get into it)

If these are the worst of my problems in life, then I've got nothing to complain about

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I haven't turned on a TV since early 2012.

Only a handful of series I remember before that. TV was never a big thing. American Experience in its heyday was a recurring theme. I howled at Monk. And warmed to Northern Exposure. I remember the Odd Couple. Were there other shows?