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Look, We Can Definitively Agree That Cable Is Far Superior To Network. That Isn't To Say That There Can't Be A Great Network Drama Or Comedy That Makes 20-plus Episodes A Year. We Know That There Are, And There Have Been.

You Can Watch An Episode Of Friends Or An Episode Of Law & Order And Just Drop In, But You're Not Going To In The Middle Of Season 4, Episode 5 Of Lost. It's Like Picking Up A Harry Potter Book And Flipping To A Chapter. You Have To Read It From Beginning To End.

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But I Do Think That, When You Slow The Conveyor Belt Down, The Quality Control Tends To Go Up. You Have A Lot More Time Between Seasons To Talk About What Worked And What Didn't Work, And Plan For The Future. And The Pacing Of The Storytelling, Particularly For On-going Serialized Dramas, Means That You Don't Need To Do Non-essential Episodes, Just Because You Have To Fill This Pre-existing Schedule.

I Think That At The End Of The Day I'm Drawn To A Certain Level Of Ambiguous Storytelling That Requires Hard Thought And Work In The Same Way That The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Does: Sometimes You Just Want To Put It Down Or Throw It Out The Window, But There's A Real Rewarding Sense If You Feel Like You've Cracked It.