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How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

White Hat: You should keep watching! After the first season it gets really good. Cueball: Oh yeah, I've heard that! White Hat: You should keep watching! After the first 8 movies, they get really good. Cueball: Haha, what? I'm not going to sit through eight bad movies! It's weird how it's way more normal and socially acceptable to suggest someone spend 10-15 hours watching something when it's TV rather than movies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Or just wait until the 8th movie. Treat it like I treat most articles now that are like "This was the Beatle's biggest regret!". The first 4-5 paragraphs will be total fluff and now I immediately scroll to about the halfway point where they actually address the headline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Tbf, there is often a proportional reward (multiple seasons of good TV being quite a bit longer than the movies that get good).

Also, with how pacing, budgets and casts work in the industry, a movie often ends up having more in terms of emotional investment and new information than an equivalent length of TV. So the effort to watch a movie is not the same as watching an hour and a half of TV (on average).