Line Of Duty finished on an absolute MOTHERFUCKER of a cliffhanger tonight with the best person in the show facing a bullet when the screen turned to black.
I loved it. We were roaring at the screen. We were roaring when the credits started. A plastic bottle may have flown across the room. The tension was brutal. The thought of waiting another 167 hours for the next episode was cruel.
But it's all part of the buzz of watching a show like this on TV. Imagine if it was on netflix and you could instantly play the next installment. Any tension created during the show wouldn't matter a jot if we could go straight into the next episode. There'd be no bit of buzz. We wouldn't talk about what we'd just seen. We wouldn't be guessing who's behind what and who's about to get wiped out. There'd be no point when we could find out after a couple of hours. We wouldn't really care at all. We'd just robotically consume the next episode without thinking.
Imagine if each series of the big shows we all loved had been released in one fell swoop. Buffy, ER, The Sopranos, Friends. They'd be distant memories. We'd have gone through them like locusts. NOM NOM what's next? You'd never grow to love a character or care about them. Instead of spending weeks and months watching them grow and interact we'd plough through them over a weekend. It's not good. Instant gratification never is. It always leaves you wanting more.
Once a week. It's the best way to go. It's the only good thing about Disney +. They get the power of talk, of anticipation.
Keep em' wanting more.
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