Once upon a time, television gave us 39-episode seasons. Shows like I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke weren’t events — they were fixtures of American life. By the 1980s and 90s, 22–24 episodes became the norm. Even The Office — whose cast recently joked at the Screen Actors Guild Awards about surviving 22-episode seasons — was already part of a shrinking model. Today? Seven. Eight. Maybe ten episodes if we’re lucky. So what happened? The answer isn’t overnight, and it isn’t creative burnout. It traces ba
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Once upon a time, television gave us 39-episode seasons. Shows like I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke weren’t events — they were fixtures of American life. By the 1980s and 90s, 22–24
Landon Reid(@and_mayhem_ensued_). original sound - Landon Reid. Once upon a time, television gave us 39-episode seasons. Shows like I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke weren’t events — they were fixtures of American life. By the 1980s and 90s, 22–24 episodes became the norm. Even The Office — whose cast recently joked at the Screen Actors Guild ...
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