>UK House Of Cards
>3 separate 4 episode mini series,11 hrs in total

>USA series
>6 seasons
>total 60hrs 50 minutes
>each of the first 5 seasons is longer than the entire original House of Cards trilogy by itself
>only ended because the main actor was accused of raping multiple children, who then turned up dead leading to the charges being dropped

why is American TV so... long?

DADDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

american maximalism and excess, overstaying its welcome, gay shit

You've seen Kevin Spacey's new thriller, right?

>>212551176 (OP)
Because it's run by marketing people, not creative people. A show will run for as long as it's profitable, and then just ... end.
Dont get me started on The Office ...

Capitalist mental illness

Assuming infinite growth is possible and milking everything to death

>>212551176 (OP)
It was harder to take control of the us government than it was to take control of the uk government

>>212551243
What a stupid fucking scene. And they replayed it SOOO many times. How did not a single person on the production team not stop and say "hey, don't you think this might be a little hard to take seriously?"

>>212551537
Trump ran as a Joke and won.
Biden had dementia and won.
Obama literally got elected for being black.
George Bush got elected because his dad was a shit president
Bill clinton raped women in the oval office and stayed in power
you had a movie star as your president at one point

>>212551176 (OP)
Idiotic cherry-picking. here is but one example of long running English tv series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_(1978_TV_series)

long running Chinese tv series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series)

>>212551579
Yeah but you have to wait every 4 years to become US president. US elections are always a big deal. A UK PM can be elected and then discarded within days, and he's hardly a celebrity. A lot less prestige and importance is placed upon the office

>>212551594
>7 seasons soap over 12 years
>84 total hours

>one season of 95 episodes to tell a 600 year old traditional story from their culture covering a 96 year time period
>95 total hours

it's still shorter than the Breaking Bad series (yes i am including better call saul and the movie)

it's shorter than Friends

I'm not cherry picking, i am literally talking about a UK show and the American adaption of it. this is the most like for like comparison possible

>>212551536
Daily reminder

>>212552204
>if you don't like capitalism you're a communist
American education

>>212551176 (OP)
UK Shameless is longer than the US Shameless