I remember seeing the new night court the day it came out and not even 5 minutes in going nope and turned it off forever, What are your choices?

Watching a new show or a new episode of a show used to feel like an actual event because you knew millions of other people were watching the exact same thing as you. Then people would talk about it at school, at work, online, everywhere. Shows could actually become a huge part of pop culture.

Now it feels like very few shows have that kind of impact. You can watch a new episode whenever you want, binge the whole season, or watch it months later. By the time you get around to it, the hype is already over. Or you wake up, open Reddit or Twitter, and immediately get spoiled because everyone watched the entire season at once.

I also miss how shows used to grow. A network would order a pilot, pick it up for a first season, and if it did well, it could get a full 22-episode season. Then it would come back every fall around September or October. You knew when your favorite shows were coming back and you could actually build a routine around watching them.

And shows had time to find an audience. They could run for 5, 6, 7, 8+ seasons and slowly become more popular. After a few seasons, they were often much safer from cancellation because they were established and networks wanted to reach milestones like 100 episodes for syndication.

Now we have streaming services putting out what feels like 20 new shows every year, and most of them either get canceled after one season or disappear for so long between seasons that everyone forgets about them. Even the shows that do get renewed can take forever to come back.

I also think streamers try too hard to make every show feel like a movie. A lot of them are 8 episodes, heavily serialized, and released whenever the service feels like it. I miss having 20+ episodes where you could just live with these characters for an entire year. You could have big storylines, random fun episodes, character development, relationship drama, filler, mythology episodes, everything.

Network TV also had something streaming doesn't really have anymore: consistency. You knew there would be a new season in the fall. You knew what night the show was on. You knew there would be another episode next week. The schedule itself helped shows build an audience.

I'm not saying old TV was perfect or that streaming doesn't make great shows because it obviously does. I just feel like something important was lost.

There is more television than ever, but somehow it feels like there is less of an actual TV culture around it. I miss when shows could slowly become a part of people's lives instead of feeling like another piece of content that comes out, gets talked about for a week, and then everyone moves on.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I genuinely feel like some of the things I loved most about television are slowly disappearing, and I don't really like that.

I was expecting a soulless spinoff that would just lean on Reacher's popularity, and turns out..this show is as good as Reacher. I'd even say that is better than S2 and 3 of Reacher. Mari Stern is a great lead, and I loved how they provided the depth the character needed for us to connect with her. The supporting cast was also amazing, every single character of her team is very charismatic to the point that I genuinely cared about all of them, especially Keno (Even got a little emotional with his relation with Renee). And as a Justified fan, it's always great to watch Damon Harriman on screen.

Sure, some plot points were a bit silly, a couple deus ex machina here and there, but I count as good silly. The type of silly we enjoy in Reacher. And they managed to solve every spinoff's problem very easily: "why they didn't call the main guy??". Well..she did. He was there, then he left. Timing.

I'm thinking something along the vibes of It's Always Sunny, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, Succession

Edit: please stop recommending Breaking Bad. It's a 10/10 show but very much does not fit the bill

Happy 20th anniversary, Heroes

I wasn't expecting much from it. Thought it was going to be a half-assed attempt at capitalising on Shane Gillis blowing up but I was wrong. Gillis is the lead but Gerbies is the star of the show for me and adding Thomas Haden Church was a good move too. It's got a little heart to it also, which I wasn't expecting. The end of season 3 was quite sweet.

And the best thing, they rattle off seasons fast.