10 Things Everyone Hates About Modern TV
8. Hyping Every New Show As "The Next..."
There's perhaps no single modern TV trend more infuriating or harmful than the desire by networks and the media to seek out "the next" of something.
Ever since Game of Thrones became a mega-hit, there's been tiresome speculation on what might become "the next Game of Thrones," such that practically any fantasy show released today gets saddled with unfair hype and expectations.
Can't we just let shows like His Dark Materials and Shadow and Bone be the first them rather than lazily compare them to what came before?
And Game of Thrones is hardly the first example - pundits spent years arguing over what "the next Lost" would be, and the hunt for "the next Stranger Things" has been ongoing for a few years now.
This constant desire to liken new series to hugely successful ones is depressingly reductive and, at a wider level, incentivises studios and creatives to just rehash a winning formula rather than actually try something bold and different. No thanks.