Why do shows made for streaming companies still have obvious commercial breaks?
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I imagine it’s probably a combination of writers used to writing for traditional broadcast/cable TV and just having those cadences worked into their brains, and/or the fact that it’s something viewers are used to – that dramatic pause and fade to black right before or after a big plot element, that it feels more natural even if there’s no actual commercial break.
There are a lot of things about TV and movies that are done because it’s the way they’ve always been done. The 24fps of films and high quality TV for instance is an artificial limitation these days, but because it was the way things were for so long if we see a movie or TV show filmed at a high frame rate our immediate response is that it looks cheap and tacky because that kind of smooth motion was always associated with soap operas and other low quality broadcasts.
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