The episodes are not self contained - so far all three were open ended. It's frustrating having to wait another week. I

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Stenian — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 08:42 AM)

Me too.
Serialized TV shows have usually been the most successful and critically acclaimed, btw (Game of Thrones, Prison Break, Lost, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, etc). So I don't get the hate?

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RabidAnchovy345 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 08:47 AM)

Seems to me people only ever complain about serialized TV series when they can't binge-watch them.

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steffeeric — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 08:51 AM)

Exactly nobody has any patience. I don't want to wait to find out what happens is the most common complaint about TV shows these days. Netflix has spoiled people.

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Shred_Master — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 09:20 AM)

The last season did that too. Every episode was a continuation of the last. Seems like that's what they're going to be doing for awhile now. Probably to get people to keep watching, as opposed to catching a few episodes here and there and then moving onto something else.
Yeah well, you know thats just like, your opinion man.

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jones82176 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 02:39 PM)

if it makes you want to watch it again next week it has sort of fulfilled it's purpose as a TV series

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maggieameanderings — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 05:52 PM)

Some of the three parters were excellent.
But an entire season is too long.

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ragabonds — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 10:01 AM)

Agreed, the three parters were some of the best SP stories out there. As for the whole series taking on this format, if this was a 40 minute series, I could do waiting till next week, but for a mere 20 odd minutes a week? That just leaves me a little frustrated.

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Gutch220 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 12:35 PM)

South Park has definitely become more serialized in later seasons.
Perhaps it's because Matt & Trey like doing longer drawn out story arcs these days instead of self-contained episodes.

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Matt345 — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 01:53 PM)

Agree, they just suddenly stop when they haven't really gone anywhere yet and have just reached the minimum of jokes to pass as a new episode. They feel shorter than normal, but not because they are so "good", but because one is really waiting and waiting for it to take off Aaand it's done.

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ragabonds — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 04:42 AM)

Matt, that is exactly it! I think it finally happened in the last episode. But that was way too long.