I think the first time I saw The Wire, after I finished watching it I though — what I just saw was nothing like a TV show but more like a movie. A movie I was watching for the last past five years, with fully developed characters, an angoing plot, a great beginning and an excellent ending. With a narrative structure devided into five seasons and five different standpoints.

The Wire was the first but many followed. House of Cards, Breaking Bad and so on. Netflix has arguably brought a new distruptive vision of home enternainement that quickly generated interest for the small screen in Hollywood. Famous movie directors such as Spielberg and Fincher saw new ways of expression by producing and directing TV shows.

In the meantime, when you go to the movies the length of the feature films keeps on getting longer and longer. I personnally can’t remember the last time I saw a less than a two hour movie. If you’re lucky, a typical blockbuster is two or two and a half hours long. Which is long and short at the same time, especially if you’re working on the Lord of the Rings adaptation.

Now, imagine if Peter Jackson did a three seasons TV Show. I’m pretty sure, if not him — somebody will one day. I’m not saying that movies are dead, of course not. It’s just that HBO, AMC and Netflix are shifting the home entertainment paradigm, and should be more considered by big Hollywood directors instead of making longer movies and still get fans frustrated (not that I’m a Lord of the Rings fan).