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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9860621" data-attributes="member: 18">Fallout was better by far when it was dropped as a season rather than released episode by episode, as S2 ably illustrated.It was genuinely less fun to watch when you had to wait a week between episodes. It didn't seem to have been written/shot as if it was anticipating a wait either.In general I think any show with:A) Fewer than like, 10 episodes.B) A relatively complex continuing plot, especially if flashbacks/flashforwards, fake-outs, multiple characters in different locations with different goals, and the like are involved.C) A relatively high energy level (so like, most thrillers or cop shows, but not say slow-paced character-driven work like Mad Men).Is better off being dropped as a block for "binge-ing"Sure, but that was then, and this is now, and TV is balkanized for that to be a thing anymore with any show apart from like maybe absolute #1 smash hits. Even those it usually doesn't apply to. I can't think of any show since the pandemic which "everyone was talking about". Can you?Sometimes there's one where you'll get a few episodes worth of discussion, but rarely more than that. A 20+ episode weekly show now? People just wouldn't keep up. They barely keep up when it's 6-8 episodes.I'd say easily 90% of shows which drop as weekly episodes now are just effectively trying to "make fetch happen".</blockquote>