I really appreciate those few TV series that were planned for a certain length and actually ended up that long, instead of getting cancelled, or dragged further. I feel that the art bit of film-making is getting lost, in favour of making dopamine-rollercoasters.

It absolutely isn’t! For so many reasons!

Including social/cultural cohesion. I refuse Netflix because it would shatter me to become invested over & over in a story - a relationship with those characters - and have that investment kicked off a cliff.

Yet it also separates me from others because I have no idea what they are talking about - and never will, even if late. 😞

It unnecessarily fractures us all. 😔

Boycott USA Streaming companies.because a mix of cultural imperialism, stupidity and parasites (little local employment and all "profit" exported, much off shored and much tax avoidance. Also some bully ISPs into hosting servers, so non-streaming customers of ISP are subsidising them!).

kinda got to the point that I wait for something to finish before investing time in it, got burnt by Firefly back in the day!