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'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Viewership Down 55% From Season 1

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It’s also insane we have gotten to a place with TV shows were 7 episodes a season is wild. We went from 22 a season. Down to 12-13 for game of thrones. And now we are at 7. There has to be more time flushing things out and getting an audience behind all these characters and becoming emotionally invested into the show. You can’t do that with 7 episodes that are roughly around 45 minutes
- 7 episodes every two years.
  
  Total run time of this entire season of LOU is the same run time as lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring extended version lolol
  
  It's not just a straight-up hours game though. You can't just put it all together and claim it's one thing. There's a flow to these things. Individual episodes need to have their own arcs. Each episode has to tell its own story. Or at least a coherent piece of the story. I mean you can't just chop a movie up into pieces and call it a good television show. It wouldn't work. So pure hours don't actually mean much.
  
  I’m well aware of this. But the pacing of the last of us seasons feel like a sprint to the finish.
  
  The two year gap becoming standard is particularly rough, especially because it often ends up being three years
  
  Yep I lose interest in so many shows that way
  
  alot of shows started doing this, and then the actors got too old(ISAIP,spn) and everyone forgot about the series, and then quality went down as well too.
  and not as bad as orville, 6 years for 3 seasons, and 4th season may not even materialize, because its always in a limbo. one of the leads of orville(the palacki in rosenbaums podcast) said it was insane and too unaffordable to wait that long per season.
  and then the fabled AOT which was almost 10years for 4seasons.
- 22 episodes, much of it slop. Shorter runs are more interesting.
  
  Sure sometimes, but seven?
  
  22 more time to fleshout arcs without rushing. you cant do that with 7, some cuts have to be made.
- I mean sure, but game of thrones episodes were like an hour plus long, and older tv shows like 30 minutes with 2 commercial breaks.
- Korean Dramas tend to be 12-16 in length. Apple seems to mostly hold out at 10.
  
  10 is the sweet spot IMO.
  
  10 per half season is ideal, 10 is pushing it though.
- Episodes used to last 20 minutes though.
  
  Cartoons did, but most shows aired for adults lasted 40+ minutes
- disney had 6, yea they are reducing amount per season, just to save money, cheapasses. INVINCIBLE basically had alot material to go through, they couldnt possibly go through the series with that little episode, it will take AOT-level time period to finish all those arcs.
- I thought gave it v thrones was 10 every season except for the last two, which, coincidentally ended with 7 episodes
- Blake's 7 I the late 70s/early 80s was thirteen 50 min episodes a season. It's not a new trend by any means, just perhaps more niche in the past.

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