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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 142289" data-attributes="member: 719">The most successful new show of the last three seasons in the US is This Is US, which is the definition of slow-paced--they took a year and a half to answer the question of how its lead character died. It also, amazingly, has no drug cartels or brothels--just family members going through situations such as obesity, anxiety, loss of a loved one, and career changes. It is very much a soap, just not one with villains and ridiculous misunderstandings. The modern audience excuse (and I am not saying you came up with it, it is thrown around a lot and not just by posters) is a fabrication, much like the fabrication of the modern voter, by lazy show-runners and network execs who refuse to do hard work for success, and want instant monetary gratification--and they project their instant gratification desires onto others--aka, the audience.  Good TV is for marathon runners, not sprinters. Many shows burned brightly upon premiere to be cancelled soon thereafter.</blockquote>