In the wake of the modern Golden Age of TV, networks and streaming services appear to be still trying to figure out what audiences want. Gone are the days of 22-minute comedies and 44-minute dramas that ran from September to May and sorted neatly into either lowbrow or highbrow. Genre lines have blurred. Episode counts have atrophied to single digits. Budgets and quality can range from so low as to be disposable to more ambitious than those of studio films. And one format has benefited most from this destabilization: the miniseries.

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