>Bones 12 seasons
>Simpsons 34 seasons
>Suits 9 seasons
What the perfect amount of seasons a show should have? They seem to get more soulless the longer they drag on.
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>Bones 12 seasons. >Simpsons 34 seasons. >Suits 9 seasons
I don’t think I’ve seen a show that’s gone longer than 5 seasons without at least a slight dip in quality
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5 but that's a rare exception
Depends on the show. Something like The Shield only gets better with age. Most shows go to shit after the 5th season. Comedies can age somewhat gracefully but most sitcoms suffer from flanderization by the 6th season
As few as possible, even if that is 1 or 10
For me? Mini-series with 5-8 episodes and one season.
Hard to think of shows that lasted over 6 seasons with all seasons being good.
See
The Shield and maybe The Sopranos
Shield isn't good and Sopranos has six seasons. And the first season of Sopranos isn't especially good anyway.
a pleb on so many levels…
the sopranos does in fact have seven seasons, and the first season was good
>The Shield isn't any good
Why?
24 was decent for the main seasons
You could make a case for Mad Men
Oh yeah that was seven and not six. The first season is not very good though.
That's why I mentioned that you could make a case
The first season is lacking, but mostly comparing to the later seasons. On its own it's still quite good
3 - 5, but that point depending if it's a 13 - 24 episode season, they've usually exhausted al the good plot and character ideas
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X-files had 6 good seasons.
Two and a Half Men (Mennnnnnnnnnn)
Seinfeld
CSI Miami
Clevland show
Grounded for Life
Slide
Jerry Springer
As many as it needs to tell a story that was set in stone before the cameras rolled for the pilot. No mid-story rewrites, no prequel episodes that retcon shit - just a strong story that was done and dusted from the very beginning.
A show with real plot should be 3-5 seasons, long enough to be able to develop, and short enough to not be written like decaying dogshit and milking the show just becasue it was popular. The exception being 1-season shows like td and chernobyl. Sitcoms can go on for how long they want, they are usually just small laughs and little fun with no real plot
No way there are thirty-four seasons of THE SIMPSONS.
Started in 1989. Why not.
5 seasons is the perfect amount
For sitcoms
>3 seasons
Anything after just leads to massive flanderization and moronic relationship drama.
For dramas
>5 seasons
Wether procedural or story driven 5 seasons is enough to tell a decent story with the characters and close off all arcs nicely without dragging things on through dogshit writing since by that point fans of the show will have taken Iverson the writing gig as the original ones will have moved on.
Simpsons only gets good after 3 seasons.
Simpsons broke all the rules. And made a bunch in the process. Cartoons are usually different, but the 3 and 5 seasons work for most series I find. There's obviously exceptions. Simpsons. Seinfeld.
Suits was fun until the 3rd or 4th season. At least that's when I stopped watching.
There's only so long you can take it until it becomes even more absurd that nobody finds out about Mike's lack of an actual law degree.
But yeah, 3 is about fine. Some should be just flash in a pan, lightning in a bottle type single season shows though, since they're so easily run into the ground.
There's some shows I watch and after season 1 just go "yep that's it i don't need to watch anymore seasons because I know it will be shit compared to it"
Like westworld.
2 series of 8-12 episodes, 3 series if need be. See Life on Mars for the best programme ever made.
>12yrs ago
You sure about that?
How's things in bongland?
3 seasons for serialized TV, 9 max for episodic TV.
6 or 7 seems to be the sweet spot before they go to shit