I am so old, I remember when cable TV only delivered one episode per week of a TV series (that lasted 20+ episodes per season).With loads of ads. I am also old enough to remember how streaming services broke that system by dropping complete seasons at once for binge watching (but also reduced seasons to 8-10 episodes). Without ads. And now we have streaming services going back to cable TV by delivering one episode per week and asking for even more money. And adding ads. Progress, I guess? ;)
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@philenotfound It's one word. There are many more. And there are also ways to step out of the downward spirals that surround us :)
@jwildeboer True! A lot of them end in arr..
@jwildeboer I'm so old there was no cable or satellite TV. We had three channels and you had to wait up to a year to find out if there was even going to be another episode.
@jwildeboer At least they offer the series as video-on-demand rather than as a live stream. But I'm guessing they've already got that idea in the works.
@flxtr I am still so old that I immediately look for the DVD or BluRay box of a new season, order it, rip it and enjoy watching it from my own server whenever I want to, without being watched and analysed :)
@jwildeboer I think the word for this is enshittification