'The Office' star Rainn Wilson says it was 'chaotic' after 'comic engine' Steve Carell left
'The Office' star Rainn Wilson says it was 'chaotic' after 'comic engine' Steve Carell left
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'The Office' star Rainn Wilson says it was 'chaotic' after 'comic engine' Steve Carell left
I'll never begrudge people on shows wanting to continue, since it means the creatives and crew continue to get consistent work, but by the same token The Office was already noticeably declining by the time Carell left, and it never got better. Creatively, it could have ended when Jim proposed, probably should have ended when Jim and Pam got married, and definitely should have ended when Michael left. The rest is just flailing, flanderization and coasting.
7 years is a sweet spot with American TV. If they don't wrap it up after 7 season it just becomes shit. X-Files should have ended at 7. Stargate SG-1 at 7. In fact a lot of them were written for a good closing at 7 years but studios just have the need for enshitification for that ad money.
Think of the legendary good shows that knew when to end at 7 years. Or 5 years.
Simpsons needed 8, so we get the conclusion of who shot Mr. Burns. But that's still damn close.
Huh STNG - seven seasons.
I think That 70s Show was 8 seasons long if I’m remembering correctly and you’re right, season 8 was absolutely terrible. It had been declining already by then, but atleast if they ended with season 7, they would’ve ended in a better spot.
Honestly season 8 felt like a spinoff written by someone else.
i dint mind 8-10 it was a nice change from the goauld for like the past 7 years which turned them into a joke, clearly the age was getting on for sg1 though. sci-fi should at least last 7 years, and not like all this 8 episode bs that streams are pushing, not enough time to flesh out content.
sga , sgu dint last long enough, and there was so much more content left in those shows, by evidence of interviews after it ended. Wier in season 5, ghost in the machine alluded to "advanced races hidden from the wraith in the pegasus galaxy" as foreshadowing. and sgu had the ancient-level planet builder aliens.
The original UK version clocked in at two seasons and ended with UK's Jim confessing his love to UK's Pam and UK's Michael being let go because he's not good at this job.
It left a lot of story strands unfinished/unresolved and that's okay.
God, I wish more television shows were planned with just a short series with things wrapped up after a few seasons. Hell, Netflix already cancels things after two seasons anyway, so lean into two seasons being what you get.
While I think some British shows quit well before the main veins of drama or comedy have been mined, going out early is better than late. For recent-ish American shows, I think 30 Rock (which famously had to hang on by the skin of its Emmys' teeth) and The Good Place both went out after the curve had inflected but well before they passed the point of no return.
That's pretty much all streaming these days. Netflix wasn't even the first for that format, FOX had been doing that for decades before Netflix was even mailing DVDs.
But then we would have never gotten Robert California, and that would have been a real shame.
Respectfully disagree. :-)
I had to look up who that even was. That's how forgettable everything past season 7 is.
They easily could have ended the main show at any of those points and made a legit sequel (like they are doing now) with hardly any down time and both shows would have been better off.
Good stories, however they are told, have a beginning, a middle, and most importantly, an end.