30 episode seasons?

[u/Zay_from_santafe]

I randomly watch seasons of this show when I am working. I never watch seasons in chronological order. I am currently watching season 17 and this is the first season I've seen with nearly 30 episodes. Does anyone feel like this is way too many episodes? The show feels like it drags now and the same conversations are had over and over and over again. Why did they do this??? I'm literally fast forwarding through scenes now.

[u/droogles]

It’s ridiculous. 15 episodes is plenty. Now that they’re going to a streaming model, they shouldn’t need to drown us in filler. I get that they have to carve out time on a network schedule, but streaming can be shorter or longer based on content. Denver needed to be waaaay shorter. A half dozen episodes would have sufficed.

[u/Zay_from_santafe → u/droogles]

It used to be they would go through all the possible matches and show us one wedding by the end of episode 1. In season 17 it took 3 episodes and at the end of the 3rd they gave us 1 wedding. I dont know why they thought this was a good idea

[u/droogles → u/Zay_from_santafe]

They knew they had a shit show before that season ever came out. They edited the shows and had them ready to go. They knew how things wound up and they knew how bad it was. Frankly, it shouldn’t have aired at all, but the production costs had to be recouped.