Conversation Between Brodinski and Yoda


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  1. 02-24-14
    Good to know; I'm gonna make a point to catch up real soon, hopefully. At which point I can venture back into the thread about it without having to worry about spoilers.

    But yeah, there are downsides to anthologies. Upsides too, because you can tell nothing but consequential stories where you don't have to drag things out and/or keep main characters alive just to keep the show going. Not for everyone, but when you think about it virtually no American shows are anthologies (I struggle to think of another before this besides American Horror Story), so I'd like to see more. Whether or not this one, in particular, is the best fit, I'm not sure, but I hope people come to see it as a viable format.
  2. 02-24-14
    Hmm, I don't think it can be as qualitative as a regular series. I know that 99 % of all regular series reset at the start of every season and then start over using most of the main characters. But there's like 1 % which doesn't, and then I'm talking about Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire to some extent, Deadwood, and The Shield. That's the best of the best: creating long story arcs that span over multiple seasons with some slight foreshadowing what is to come, but not as soon as we expect it.

    Can't have that in anthologies. But True Detective sh!ts all over most series. Episode 4 is the better than all new movies I've watched in the past year or so.
  3. 02-24-14
    Yeah, I liked the first episode, and I want it to do well in a meta sense, so people try more anthologies. The British tinker with the format more than we do and I'd like to see it more often.
  4. 02-24-14
    You'd absolutely like it.