'The Pitt' Is Making Once-a-Year Seasons Cool Again

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I’m not sure which show officially started the trend that it was OK for streaming series to wait two or three years between seasons (I want to blame Game of Thrones , but The Sopranos did it first). But that trend caught fire during the pandemic, which completely normalized long gaps between seasons. Now we have to wait two-and-a-half years for new episodes of For All Mankind or three years for Severance or, what? Forty-eight years between seasons of Stranger Things ? (Seriously, though: It will take a full decade for that series to air its full five seasons).

The long gaps are a great way to make us lose interest. But HBO Max’s The Pitt is like: F**k that. We’re going to make 15 episodes a s

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