Everything from the Boys, to Marvel shows, to Lower Decks waste so much time every episode recapping what happened previously. We’re watching these shows on demand. If we needed a recap we simply watch parts of the last episode. Binging shows is so normal it’s a meme now.
Do the people making these shows seriously think there’s a possibility of network syndication or something? As if we’ll eventually go back to the network model?
What do you think?
I imagine it’s to pad runtime.
I presume they do it for the people who don’t binge watch or who end up dropping a show for a while, only to come back and not remember what happened last episode.
I personally enjoy them considering there are times I watch shows with breaks of weeks in-between episodes and need it. Saves time.
Who’s “we”? I love recaps at the start of an episode when the last one I watched was a week ago. If you don’t like them, it’s streaming video. Just skip forward!
I don’t always binge watch shows. And I’m not going to rematch all the episodes every time I come back to a show. And as an ADHD person I appreciate the reminders of what happened.
A lot of times they re-cap the bits from previous episodes that are relevant to the one you’re about to watch. They aren’t random flashbacks.
Yeah. They always show that old character that you forgot about in the “previously on” right before his surprise comeback.
Which ruins the surprise.
If they need a recap for the viewers to remember what’s going on then it’s bad storytelling.
The fight you’re looking for is one you need to have with yourself.
Or possibly the viewers have more going on in their lives than focusing on one TV show.
Oh yeah, because everyone will obviously remember what a guy mentioned off hand on a random episode 5 years ago.
I agree that a “previously on” for what happened the previous episode is bullshit, but that’s almost never the case.
Not bad, just extended. If you’re watching season 3 and there’s a throwback to season 1, it’s good to have that reminder.
So much time being 30s in an hour long episode?
I like to put things that didn’t happen in the “Previously On” portions, to fuck with people’s heads.
“More broccoli?”
"It isn’t broccoli I want… it’s… you!"
Not everyone binges shows, and some release weekly, and in either case are following the pattern of recaps for those who didn’t just watch the previous episode before starting the current one.
I’m just glad all of the ones I can think of have a skip recap button. Same for intros!
I’ve been watching Clone Wars with my partner and find the recaps really useful since we usually only watch one episode at a time.
Official chronological order, of course
If I’m binging, I’ll skip them if the option is there. Otherwise, they help when I remember a show exists and I come back to it.
I like them. I watch stuff in bursts. Like ten episodes at a time, then I don’t have the time to watch anything for a month and my memory gets sketchy.
And The Boys recaps are funny.
Previously on The Boys: Splatter, splash, gloop, burp, blop!
Exactly what I was talking about!
I’d rather watch the recap than manually skip around through a previous episode. And if the recap leaves me confused then I’ll looks at the last episode.
Honestly, the best treatment of this was in the pre-streaming world with the “next time on Arrested Development.”
The running joke is that they would pretty much never happen, except once in a while when they did.
I appreciate the 30 second heads up of which exact previous scenes will be important in the upcoming episode.
Even if I’ve just binged a bunch, and don’t need a recap of the broader story arc, there may have been a name drop or specific reference that could have been missed.
I watch shows 1-2 episodes at a time, then switch to another show.
