Why do we have seasons?

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by Gamma_Winstead

1. We do. They're called soap operas.

2. The reason those shows aren't good, is because they really can't be. You're forced to constantly push forward. There's filler, bad episodes, bad acting, and more because you HAVE to meet deadlines.

Of course, no matter what you'll get those variables. But they're obviously more frequent in soap operas.

Soap operas shoot like a full episode a day. Sometimes they shoot additional parts of other episodes in that same day. Actors have no time to prepare for pretty mediocre and repetitive dialog and very few takes to do it in. Some actors you see on soaps and think are talentless hacks actually perform a lot better in primetime or movies; it's like night and day. Daniel Day-Lewis would look bad with soap opera scripts.