When a show creator/producer says that their show has no pre-established endgame or overarching plot, and they plan to just keep making episodes until the ratings slip or the creative well runs dry, and then the hipster TV snobs are like…

Tcha. Yeah. About that…*Ahem*

Look, I have nothing against your Steven Universes, your Star VS the Forces of Evils, your Avatar: The Last Airbenders, your Adventure Times, your She-Ra and the Princesses of Powers, your Owl Houses, your Amphibiases, what have you; most of them aren’t my jam personally, but if you prefer those types of shows, then that’s perfectly fine. You do you. BUUUUT…

I hate it when people treat episodic shows and stand-alone episodes of shows like they’re worthless. Not all content needs to be a piece of a bigger whole. Not every show has to be serialized or a saga.

Some of y’all might not be old enough to remember this, but back in the Before Time…

…Episodic shows were the norm, not the exception. For a long time, showrunners weren’t concerned about telling a gigantic overreaching story…

I’m not saying people can’t or shouldn’t enjoy a serialized show. If that’s what you dig, then continue digging them. They can be great if well done, but just because ‘prestige’ shows are in vogue right now doesn’t mean that that’s the only type of show we should get or that shows which don’t adhere to this type of storytelling are somehow ‘inferior’; short-range episodic shows can be cool too.

You don’t always need a seven-course meal with all the trimmings…

Sometimes a simple burger and fries will do!