It’s mostly Netflix that dumps it all at once.

HBO, Apple TV and Prime still usually do staggered releases.

It still transcended that.

What? There’s tons of TV shows, many high budget, released in the last year

It sounds like the OP wants ‘monster of the week’ stuff

Network TV still does police and medical shows that have a ‘monster/crime of the week’ style, but it’s rare now.

So you mostly like episodic formats.

Do you actually like serialised content? Most TV is now serialised, as opposed to being episodic like X-Files.

got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…

It has nothing in common with Xena other than being in the fantasy genre.

You may not like GOT, but that doesn’t make it awful.

That’s mostly Disney content. Most series are 8-10 episodes long still, and there’s more series made than there was in the 90s and 00s.

What TV shows do you like, OP?

I wasn’t specifically referring to gore or violence, but themes - and I wasn’t referring to comics specifically, just the bulk of superhero media. There have been some revisionist examples of superhero settings that take an established character and place them in a different context, with more adult HBO-esque themes. But the bulk of the many repeated releases for film every year don’t seem to be of that nature.

Was it ever that weird? I feel Superhero fiction has always been for teenagers and kids primarily. What separates it that much from Tokusatsu, barring MA-twists where characters aren’t really superheroes?

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