A Punchline In Six Parts - Part One
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Jun 7 • 16M
A Punchline In Six Parts - Part One
The Wednesday Audio #102
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Craig Burgess
A satirical and often maniacal look at internet hustle culture through the dark eyes of Wednesday evenings. If you’re looking for self-improvement, this isn’t it.
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You know how Netflix do that really annoying thing where they span a 45-minute story out into a six-part documentary series? Where there’s just absolutely no substance to the story, but they somehow manage to keep it dragging its heels, kicking and screaming, scraping its fingernails along the floor, begging it to stop, for six whole parts?
Don’t you just find it really annoying?
Don’t you just think that if something should be 36-minutes long, they should just make it 36 minutes, and not try to span it out into a six part series?
Yeah, I agree. They shouldn’t do that. Six part series are a cheap way to generate fake FOMO and false engagement.
Nobody should ever do that.
A Punchline In Six Parts - Part One
I listened to this so long ago and kept it in my email cuz i swore i didn't finish it because it didn't seem temporally satisfying, and yet now i realize it was half as long as normal so i did finish it and now am hungry for the remaining 5 courses.
Hey Craig! Hope you're well. I agree with the degradation of documentaries.
One of the things that frustrates me is that most aren't even documentaries. It's an argument towards their view. There used to be standards where you have to present multiple views and why two contradictory views might be equally as valid.
I wish they named those a different genre. Like a Docu-thesis or something so it's clear they are presenting a single argument.