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Limited series have become my new go-to with shows (lemmy.world)

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With tv being notorious for abrupt cancellations of shows, and this remaining the case with streaming, I've started focusing more on Limited Series (or mini-series). If you're like me and had no idea what Limited Series meant at first, it's basically a series with a fixed amount of episodes and, at least for those I've been enjoying lately, a guaranteed ending.

A few examples:
The Queen's Gambit
Haunting of Hill House
The Pentaverate

What about you, have you found yourself going the same way with shows, and if so what are some you might recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Ok all of these are 1980s miniseries:

Shogun, the new version is great but so's the original albeit it is a product of its time. Richard Chamberlain is great in this.

Lonesome Dove, great western miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall as retired Texas Rangers.

And the spoofs of miniseries from The Independent Film Channel are good too especially Will Farrell's introductions of each episode: The Spoils of Babylon & The Spoils Before Dying.