On the other hand that was back when we just expected half of those episodes would be "filler" that wasn't very good that we'd never watch again It becomes embarrassing having to see them all there on the DVDhttps://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1366582293289050112 …
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I remember when I was into House (sigh) Hugh Laurie went on this rant about how a career as a film actor and as a UK TV actor did not prepare him *at all* for US TV Said it was the most grueling schedule he'd ever experienced
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He went off about how all the shit people talk about low-quality American TV wasn't because the typical American actor or director or writer is any less talented -- in fact, he argues they probably have to be more competent on a baseline level just to survive the industry
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But they have to churn out SO MUCH CONTENT that it's just impossible to keep the quality level up A standard hour-long drama like Law and Order has a typical order of, like, 20 episodes per season? TWENTY HOURS of finished footage? (Cut it down to 18 for commercial breaks)
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You're asking the lead actors in that production to make *five or six feature films*, back-to-back, for WAY less money than movie actors get paid to actually make five or six feature films over a much longer period of time So of course they "sag" and have "filler"
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He said he had a newfound respect for what US actors go through -- and the poor bastards making daytime soaps have it even worse While also saying that, however much this model makes money and gave Americans the "comfort food" TV they craved, it's unsustainable
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"I'm not trying to be partisan and say the UK model is better because I'm English I'm saying the American model is *unsustainable* Something's got to give, especially with audiences clamoring for better content, 'real' writing and acting and camerawork like the movies"
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and like. it can just give. it can give and that's fine and nobody will suffer for it. nobody's watching all the TV we're producing anyway. we're making more television than anyone can actually see. we can just make less and it's fine lmao.
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you mention Law & Order, and that's just ONE Law & Order, and there have been like a dozen, and that's just ONE procedural cop drama, and there have been HUNDREDS, and that's just one type of show! it's actually staggering to think about.
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I wonder what it says about our society that SVU has now actually outlasted vanilla Law and Order (by one season, soon to be two)
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