his seasons of Homeland are good too.

Genuinely surprised at the hate this show got. It was definitely in my top 10 seasons of last year.

It wasn't perfect, of course. I found the "Mordor" text reveal super jarring and out of place. I thought the first episode and the finale were weaker than the rest of the season.

But overall I found it really beautiful, exciting, and different!

I hope a lot has changed.

Warner are going to have for fantasy lotr on film and GOT on tv if it all works out.Good combo. I hope they do get to do the films and it turns out great. Plan it out properly.

Also hoping the dune 2 and dune sisterhood hbo max shows are great and a hit.

Amazon will be fine either way. I know the show is a bit hated in these parts but its a solid base so far. They can definitely up the pace and improve on what they have built. At the very least the budget, production values and Score will carry hard. Amazon in general seems to be going hard for big shows recently with fallout, possibly god of war, mass effect and blade runner all coming later.

I think the spin-offs will be fine but I can't see them doing more than one season of the main show if it's going to cost that much money for that little content each time.

The guy trys to argue the last scene with Jack and the dog happens after the crash. As far as I remember the dog wasn't even present at the time of the crash and if it was it wasn't fully grown

I can comfortably say this is probably a Top 5 show for me as well, even accounting for the rushed way they wrapped up the finale.

I can still go back and watch episodes from the first 6 seasons or so (with a few stand outs from 7, less-so from 8, and practically none from 9), whether they're Mythology, or stand-alone.

(We don't talk about the reboot episodes)

It's a good example of how to transition from "case of the week" to overarching storyline in a seamless and exciting way. Still a B-show at best for me, but it was fun when I was a teenager! I never continued after season 5.

Does anyone know how well the series is doing? I don't ever see it talked about, a la The Last of Us or The White Lotus.

Very reminiscent of how AMC treated The Walking Dead following a hit first season.

I genuinely love that show. It's always on my list of shows I wish would've gotten more seasons.

We have a Dennis Reynolds on our hands here, folks... Check the post history:

>"I'm obsesed with these 6 girls i have a crush on. Sadly 2 of those girls have boyfriens and i have been thinking about murdering their boyfriends so i can be with my true loves."

Voyager is a good example for this as it was one isolated ship in a far away place without any crew transfers.

I still think that there were a lot of new people brought into it for extra roles instead of relying on a small pool of people.

I actually should have brought that up in my original post.

It would be cool if he was a lawyer that also did his own PI work, lol. He will have no free time whatsoever.

I watched every single episode of this series until the end. To me, it started to go downhill the Leviathan season and what they did to my Bobby Singer. I'm loyal, but I'm honest. There were ups and downs after season 5, but truly, the worst thing they could have done was what they did to Bobby. Ingents.

a lot more people might actually know his name now but that headline doesn't seem right

Cowardly not to do a spin off called hundreds and thousands.

It's actually 2 - 5. Originally, the brothers weren't meant to continue. It was going to be a anthology series at first. Their chemistry on screen is what made them stop telling a story about the world with these characters in it, and more about these characters interacting with the world. Also the budget significantly increases in the second season. If you watch the end of Season 1, it ends with a car crash with generic ass music playing on the radio. Season 2 starts and its playing a licensed Ted Nugent song.

I much prefer watching weekly. I like having a new episode to look forward to each week, and it gives me time to think about and digest each episode. I really only ever binge shows that I don't care about as much, probably paying half-attention at times while I do something else. If it's a show I am really into I want to space it out more, even if all the episodes are already available.

I think this has enough sunk cost to go till season 4, and then promptly get canned.

Waiting several months to watch the rest of something I've already started (especially while everybody's talking about it) seems worse to me?

Some of the Star Treks made more of an effort about. Voyager had a few extras who were around pretty much the entire series. Understandably, of course. I remember one guy even had his own wiki entry.

Ultimately as others have pointed out it's often a matter of logistics. Someone won't necessarily be available to do extra work for 6+ months of the year, for seven years. Certainly they wouldn't want to be paid the same for that entire time either.

It's not funny, it's freaking hilarious!

The first season is rough. I love it, I have seen it several times, I can watch any episode but the first season is rough. Like Stargate SG-1 it takes time until it becomes a diamond.

> One of Salke’s defining moves at Amazon was to secure television rights to the same literary works, which she achieved at great expense. The first season of Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” premiered in 2022 with a big global marketing push and critical acclaim — as well as a reported budget north of $450 million for the first batch of episodes. Previously, Warner Bros. pushed out two massively successful film franchises with auteur Peter Jackson beginning in 2001. Those films grossed over $5 billion at the worldwide box office and brought home a best picture Oscar for one of the entries.

> “We’ll see,” Salke told Variety when asked how much “LOTR” would be too much for the market. “We love our original series. We’re extremely proud of it, and invested long term. So, we definitely think there’s enough fan love to sustain ours for a long time.”