If you are confused why writers and actors are still on strike, I'll give you one of many, many, reasons.

The "limited series".

Where executive producers can make a killing for what is, essentiantly, 6 or maybe 8 episodes of a story told far too quickly to be appreciated.

It's clickbait entertainment.

To put this into perspective, using the current streaming business model, a single season of the ground breaking ""24" would have spanned between 6 to 8 years.

Great shows from my teens, they werre literally 20+ episodes per season.

Alias, Dollhouse, 24, Fringe... and all so intricately written and beautifully made.

Now it's 8 and you're done?

That's not art. It's business.

And you try and tell me any one of those shows was not a masterpiece of the writer's and actor's art.

They were iconic.

Imagine breaking bad as eight fucking episodes?

REALLY?

And just to reinforce my point, the latest "Walking Dead" spin off featuring two of the strongest characters in the history of the show was absolutely awful, due to the eight episode limited series format.

And it's not like people lack the attention span.

Did you ever see "Band of Bothers"?

Over 10 hours long.

And it is magnificent story telling that grabs you from minute one and never lets you go. It's spellbinding.

"Too long" is no excuse.

I mean Jeez I remember in my teens when the final series of Alias was limited to 13 episiodes and outrage ensued.

They did the same with Fringe a few years later, to the same degree of outcry and a similarly rushed conclusion to a beautifully crafted story.

It's like a kick in the face.

And now you pay 10.99 a month to get kicked in the face.

And it's always like, 3 seasons of 8 and done,

Imagine just 24 episodes of Babylon 5 (the greatest western ever to be set in space) or "The Wire". Jesus imagine that.

We need writers, we need artists, we need producer commitment, and we need content producers to appreciate the art they are meant to create.

That will be all for today's rant.

As you were,