great minds

 

actor Matt Whelan playing Hugh Hefner in

Amazon series, American Playboy

     So many new shows, documentaries, movies, series for us to watch, now.  It's amazing.  One thing I've noticed:  some of the series would be better as movies.

     One thing I clicked on recently had a fascinating and somewhat "chilling" premise -- (oooh, must explore!...) -- but when I saw that it was a series with episodes and seasons, my heart kind of sank, and I wished for a moment that it was a movie.

     Beginning, middle, and end.  A story with an answer and a point.  When I saw that list of episodes ... I had seen this phenom before... It starts off interesting and intense, and you're on-board for it, disbelief suspended, all set:  

and then it swiftly devolves into relationships, relationships, relationships, who's going to kiss whom, who's going to sleep with whom, kids getting into trouble...and pretty soon you just feel like, 'OK, did the producers just take this in for a classroom of 6th-graders to write it?'

What happened to all the time-travel and mystery and -- wonder -- that was at the beginning?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now the latest info I can find on that particular series is, it got arbitrarily cancelled and there's never going to be any answers or closure.

!!

I listened to some reviews of it on You Tube and someone there said it just became a soap opera.  (Thinking along same lines....)

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Some stories are good as a series.

And some stories will make a good feature-length movie.

     But we can understand, I guess, that with the explosion of more new "platforms" and "streaming" now they have to fill those with what they call "content" and now it's like a frantic race to make shows.

     ("Movie?  Movie?!  Make it a series!  Drag it out!  Make 85 seasons with 400 episodes apiece!  Get that content!!!" - then collapses and has to be rushed to his psychiatrist...)

The impatience I feel with some of these undulating and meandering story-lines reminds me of a famous quote by Eleanor Roosevelt:

"Great minds discuss ideas.

Average minds discuss events.

Small minds discuss people."

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     The First Lady could afford that type of standard:  she wasn't tasked with filling a bunch of streaming platforms....

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