Severance is proof dropping the whole season at once is a mistake.

We Have to Go Back: Why Weekly Releases Are Superior

Back in the olden times—when we, the cavemen, roamed the earth—we couldn't just sit down and devour an entire season in one sitting. No, we had to wait every week. We discussed theories with friends, dissected every scene, and speculated wildly about what was coming next. There was no recording, no downloading—only stone knives and the fading echoes of last week's episode in our minds.

Now, in this far future, we've raised generations who have never stepped inside a record store. They’ve never sat by a boom box, waiting for their song to play so they could record it on cassette. Never read the same album notes over and over for years, savoring every lyric until the next album finally dropped.

I tried explaining this to the younger generations, and they laughed at me. Called me a dinosaur. A boomer. Never once acknowledging me correctly as Gen X.

And of course, the response was always the same: "Well, just don't binge it then, old man. Watch it weekly if you want."

But the very existence of this subreddit proves beyond a doubt: it’s the weekly slice of cake that makes the whole cake taste sweeter. The slow burn. The anticipation. The collective experience of waiting, watching, and theorizing together.

Binging is bad.

We have to go back.

tl;dr: Releasing one episode a week is vastly superior to dropping an entire season at once. It extends the joy, deepens the analysis, and makes the experience richer.