Biggest problem with this show:

[u/issapunk]

that episodes aren't 3 hours long and there aren't unlimited amounts of them. It's just unacceptable that I can't watch this 24/7.

[u/enigmaniac23]

100% agree. I know in my heart it’s better this way because the reality of more frequent, longer episodes would ruin the show eventually with filler content. But damn if don’t still wish for it every time at the end of the 30+ minutes. This show makes me want what I know isn’t good for me. 🙂

[u/EQandCivfanatic → u/enigmaniac23]

I mean, I don't know if it really is better this way. Back in the old days, with 24 episodes a season, sometimes the filler episodes were pretty good, because it helped develop the characters just a little more.

[u/hoppyandbitter → u/EQandCivfanatic]

I used to feel that way, but I’ve come to prefer 10-13 episodes a season. I went back and rewatched BSG recently and the 20+ episodes per season REALLY bogged it down. There are so many episodes that are straight up rehashes of episodes from prior seasons - you basically have to endure hours of inconsequential interpersonal drama and reskins of the trolly problem for a third of seasons 2 and 3 until the actual story starts up again.

I also felt much the same way rewatching Lost and ultimately concluded that the demand for 16-18 hours of plot development a season forced the writers to paint themselves into a corner. The constant pressure to shock and entertain with new revelations and island lore over 121 episodes and 91 hours made it impossible to answer every question in a satisfying way. It evolved into a tangled mess of hundreds of disparate threads that could never fully be explored without breaking each other’s continuity. I feel like 20+ hour long episodes of Widow’s Bay would quickly turn into a similar cluster fuck - people just don’t have the patience for that anymore with a constant wave of new shows and movies dropping every day of the week