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I’ll wait till all the episodes are out

November 8, 2025 by Dave Winer

I don’t like it when reviewers get seven episodes of a new series and the regular folk, like me, are stuck with the first episode only. I won’t read their reviews because they’re writing about something that I don’t know anything about and they try to avoid the spoilers and all I can think about is why can’t I see all of the episodes at once.

That’s the effect of Pluribus, which is a highly anticipated show by Vince Gilligan the show runner of better call Saul and breaking bad. I know that if I go to Pirates Bay, I can probably get all of the seven episodes but I think what I’ll do instead it’s just wait for the series to end and then binge watch the whole thing in one shot or it as many shots as I feel, I want to any point in time

These shows that portion out the episodes in very small bits or throwbacks to the way TV used to work and it’s too controlling. I like the ability to program my entertainment rather than have a program for me. That’s all I can think about when I read their reviews and I think about what comes next. Well, I would like to know and I don’t wanna wait until next Friday.

Another show that got this treatment is Ken Burns upcoming story of the American Revolution. He did a huge press tour and they had all seen the entire series and that’s what they were talking about. It’s so obscene, the first moment I heard that the first reviewer doing the interview had watched the whole damn series I turned it off and I realized I don’t like any of these people. I don’t like the reviewers. I don’t like the people to do the shows. I don’t like the fact that they think there’s a line and they belong on one side and I belong on the other side