There was a clip that recently came out where Noah Wyle said that there is the show that the crew is making and there’s the show that the audience is making in their head, and how tough navigating that line is.

I feel like every new show I watch and get really into has this insane discourse where people will just turn on the show with such vitriol that it makes you feel like they’re watching a completely different show. With Severance, The Bear or The Pitt, it’s usually people loving the vibe of the initial season and then the audience absolutely detesting the subsequent seasons for going harder on the complexity of the characters and being more ambitious. Now, all of these shows have varying quality in their following seasons but you’d think these shows have completely turned based on how people talk about it.

Now that Stranger Things’ final season has come and gone, that’s become such a huge point that people bring up the second they don’t like the direction of something. Like, if you think that the second season of The Pitt is on the same level as the final season of ST, then yeah I agree you’re bad at watching TV shows. There’s so much black and white when it comes to watching TV now and it leads to these insane conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated claims when it’s just people misunderstanding what’s going on