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That said, certain types of storytelling work better with one model versus the other. If you just chop a 7-hour movie into ten parts, many of the episodes will end in spots that are anticlimactic, if they make any sense at all. This leaves the audience with a bad taste in their mouths that they stew over all week.
On the flip side, some shows will have a repeating rhythm to the structure that starts to feel monotonous if you just watch them back to back to back. Of course you can’t control how people engage once everything’s out, but ever was it thus in the era of home media, and when done well the original audience will be there to advocate for the show.
If nothing else, showrunners should be told which way the original release will be done during the writing process.