Was not a big fan of Episode 5. Especially how it just abruptly ended. I don't care about shorter runtimes as long as that's what feels what for the story. The end of this episode didn't feel like a proper end. It felt like they cut it off because they needed an episode 6 due to Disney+ wanting at least 6 episodes.
It takes me to a quote from the Duffer Brothers who were asked why they didn't split up episode 9 of Stranger Things 4 into multiple episodes. They said "There didn't feel like a natural place to cut for episodes and if the viewer really wants, they can just hit pause anyway".
Of course Netflix doesn't run on a week-to-week model so it's different, but I guess that's a positive of not doing that. There's no feeling like "corporate is making me do x amount of episodes so I have to make a cut here even though running this as a five episode series might feel more natural".
It takes me to a quote from the Duffer Brothers who were asked why they didn't split up episode 9 of Stranger Things 4 into multiple episodes. They said "There didn't feel like a natural place to cut for episodes and if the viewer really wants, they can just hit pause anyway".
Of course Netflix doesn't run on a week-to-week model so it's different, but I guess that's a positive of not doing that. There's no feeling like "corporate is making me do x amount of episodes so I have to make a cut here even though running this as a five episode series might feel more natural".