I don’t think it’s gonna be the dominant form anymore, just because everyone’s watching on their own schedule now,”
It is hard because some shows get popular because people stumble upon them. maybe recaps can adjust to new times again by finding the next hit show and reviewing it to make it popular.
What should I be watching? I’m tired of watching these 17 crappy things that Netflix or Amazon recommended to me. Help me cut through the clutter here.”
I definitely look for these sights because there is to much to look through and there are no commercials to sell you on a show that is new
Half a decade into the streaming era, recappers have largely adjusted to television’s new normal
I have noticed a lot more streaming services are starting to release weekly again. I guess they figured out it made them more money.
Netflix, which upload their seasons to the internet in multihour chunks instead of broadcasting them at an appointed time each week
Makes it challenging to recap because you don't want to give spoilers and you would have to watch everything at once to stay ahead of everyone watching
two years ago, when we were the most comprehensive site on the internet, [but] the amount of what’s out there has tripled. And it’s gonna quadruple.
There are to many streaming platforms now that have so many 'original shows' that are popular.
I honestly feel Mad Men was the last show where everyone immediately got online to talk about it after the episode aired, en masse,”
I feel like now there is no deep conversations about shows, we are moving away from the dramas and Murder docs and shows based on real events are becoming more popular
“It’s about telling a story that goes alongside the story being told in the script.
this also helped people identify with the characters better
Holmes herself began as a poster on the site’s active discussion forums while working full time as an attorney in Minneapolis;
Gave everyone a chance to explore their own interest and step out of reality for a moment.
I was the target market for something like Lost, and just really got into it.”
like most show during this time they were so good they just did not know how to end them properly or were cut by the network and did not have the option to be picked up by Netflix
n hindsight, Holmes credits the site with evangelizing “the very idea of taking seriously the messaging and the quality of things that were popular.
These were great if your friend group did not watch the same show as you it gave you someone to talk to and add another layer to your favorite shows
recaps were often engaging enough to serve as an attraction in their own right.
Recaps were great because a lot of the time we would miss shows we liked to watch due to football game and it was nice to be able to know what happened before it was spoiled in the week we had to wait for the rerun.