Remember “Severance”? Remember “Stranger Things”? Today’s leisurely TV schedules are taxing memories and changing the experience.

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This is the Ent-like pace at which TV moves these days. The “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” took nearly as long to come back for its second outing. “Severance,” likewise a member of the debut class of ’22, will return in January, almost three years since we last saw it. The teen drama “Euphoria,” whose second season began in January 2022, will start shooting a third season … sometime in 2025. By the time it airs, one assumes its characters will be eligible for Social Security.

More and more, rejoining a favorite series is like trying to remember the details of high school trigonometry. Which hobbit did what to whom? What did they do all day in that “Severance” office again? Was “Stranger Things” set in the 1980s, or was it actually made then?

  • davehtaylor@beehaw.org
    4·
    4 months ago

    All of this. Plus the Lost Cause/pseudo-Confederate undertones to the series really do not sit or hold up well

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
      3·
      4 months ago

      Man I had completely forgotten about that aspect until I read your comment and it all came flooding back.