I haven't tried the Inside Out miniseries. It sounds interesting - more interesting than the movies. I agree - Inside Out 2 felt like a retread of Inside Out 1 but less emotional. I'm thinking it was popular because of the anxiety theme.
Yup, most television shows have massive writing and cast departures around the 3-5th seasons. Let's face it Television is grueling - and actors/writers get burned out and want to move on. Also a lot of those television show work environments are toxic. The 90s and early 00s was notorious for toxic sets. Whedon wasn't wrong when he said that Buffy was actually fairly mild in comparison. Georgia (the second female lead) left Ally McBeal in S4, because she got tired of being pressured to be thin. And SNL was notorious for it's problems, as was Moonlighting. The actors want a prime time gig - they get it and after two seasons - they are hunting the exit ramp or to renegotiate their contract. David Chase apparently did in Northern Exposure - he hated the concept.
I could never get into Ally McBeal - I'd recently graduated from law school, and was working at the evil library reference company in NYC at the time. And Ally annoyed the heck out of me. Also the series was hyper-focused on Ally's romantic relationships and sexual harassment. I tried it again - and no, I couldn't get past episode four.
While I am randomly re-watching Buffy episodes and it still holds up. Campy in places, but it has a quippy sense of humor and self-deprecating wit that is lacking in a lot of series of that period. Now, you see it, but not then.
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Date: 2025-02-21 01:00 am (UTC)Yup, most television shows have massive writing and cast departures around the 3-5th seasons. Let's face it Television is grueling - and actors/writers get burned out and want to move on. Also a lot of those television show work environments are toxic. The 90s and early 00s was notorious for toxic sets. Whedon wasn't wrong when he said that Buffy was actually fairly mild in comparison. Georgia (the second female lead) left Ally McBeal in S4, because she got tired of being pressured to be thin. And SNL was notorious for it's problems, as was Moonlighting.
The actors want a prime time gig - they get it and after two seasons - they are hunting the exit ramp or to renegotiate their contract. David Chase apparently did in Northern Exposure - he hated the concept.
I could never get into Ally McBeal - I'd recently graduated from law school, and was working at the evil library reference company in NYC at the time. And Ally annoyed the heck out of me. Also the series was hyper-focused on Ally's romantic relationships and sexual harassment. I tried it again - and no, I couldn't get past episode four.
While I am randomly re-watching Buffy episodes and it still holds up. Campy in places, but it has a quippy sense of humor and self-deprecating wit that is lacking in a lot of series of that period. Now, you see it, but not then.