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I've actually heard that argument before, but not here. I heard it made about the last season of Game of Thrones. People were complaining that the pace was too fast--that it was rushed, and that the reason was because of the reduced episode count. Somebody then countered something along the lines of, '6 hours is still two movies, so they had plenty of time to tell the story'.

The problem is that tv shows are not movies. Television tends to go far more in depth than film does, and it tends to explore a far greater number of characters than film does. But the greatest difference between TV and film is that films are much more difficult to write, particularly because of the the time restrictions. It's far more difficult to tell a complete story, from beginning to end, in 2 hours, than it is to tell one in 10 hours. It requires discipline and focus that, I believe, Miles and Kerry don't have. This is why I think more time would suit them better than their current format, which, as you said, is more like a series of movies than it is a television series.