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'I Wish More TV Shows Ran for Just One Season'
I've been having this urge a lot, lately — to seal up the near-perfect first seasons of my recent favorite shows in amber so they'll be preserved forever, untainted by future disappointments, immune to the commercial insistence that the best reward for a show's success is to keep it going until it's no longer successful. My desire is admittedly perverse, and indifferent toward what anyone who creates television shows (or ponies up to underwrite and profit off them) actually wants. It's a fan's strongly felt and entirely hypocritical conviction, because it's not as though I'm not going to tune in to these second seasons when they arrive.
I couldn’t agree more.
This is how I felt about Stranger Things. I dug Season 2, and I’m looking forward to 3, but just one would’ve been fine.
Sunday March 3, 2019