As to your recent question ...
Question: As to your recent question about the multi-season potential of
Reunion, I am curious why it's so wrong for a show to last only one season by creative design rather than network decision. Why can't a show just set out to tell one story and accomplish it in one year? There are numerous examples of shows that would've been best served if they'd only lasted one year, with
Dawson's Creek being the best example. The show could have and should have ended with Joey/Dawson's kiss; everything after that (five seasons' worth) was just plot twist for the sake of plot twist.
Answer: True enough, but what country do you live in? This is U.S. television we're talking about, and while it would be very cool for certain sorts of shows to last a single season (think
Murder One or
Twin Peaks), the networks are in the long-term, not short-run, business. The economic model doesn't smile kindly on a show that lasts just one season, being neither miniseries nor actual series. The pitch for a show almost always entails an open-ended run, even if it might be more satisfying if the endgame came sooner. I'd happily cheerlead
Reunion, perhaps more than I already will, if it were self-contained within a season. Unfortunately, that's just not the way it works.
