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As seasons progress I might have to start dropping my overall rating for Black Mirror
posted by Daddie0STAFFMOD on June 12, 2019 at 3:59 PM
This is probably just a growing pain of our modern "enduring series"/"hit show" era, but after the first three seasons I had rated BM as 9/10, which is an extraordinary rating for me. That said, as the seasons have continued they have continued to devolve. While I appreciate the opportunity to rate each episode (which I do), in the case of BM the ratings have become so diverse as to not even be accurately reflected in my general ratings for the show.
I just wanted to vent. I could easily simply adjust my main show rating to reflect the denigration of quality, but it seems such a disservice given the quality of the early seasons. I was so hyped to see S5 drop...now, not so much. Anyone else having such a disconnect? TWD had a similar problem, although in a more traditional broadcast format...
Reply by Dean
on August 29, 2019 at 2:10 AM
That is good idea. IMDb allows you to rate individual episodes and it will be good if this website would implement same system.
Reply by tmdb24407783
on August 29, 2019 at 3:53 AM
Not a terrible idea, but I dunno, the vast majority of people (I would think) do not rate episodes episodically- especially on tmdb, so Im not sure theres too much of a point to doing that. Also feel like that would hand too much leverage/power to people with lots of time on their hands to rate 100's of episodes vs. more casual (busy) people/viewers who dont have the time of day to do all that. And I don't really feel like that's valid- the rating for a tv show should be the rating that a viewer feels like giving the show as a whole. This would be like asking someone "what do you think of the harry potter book series" and instead of just getting an answer from them, making them rate each individual book and getting an average from that. Like my view of a tv show is about how I feel about it as a whole, and sometimes even if I really loved all the episodes but the ending of the show was absolutely shit then the view of the show might be unexpectedly lower than you would think based on the ratings of episodes on the individual level. Like whether or not you like something is not some calculation of an average of your ratings of different parts of that thing- its how you view that thing as a whole viewing it with all of its parts combined.
I think this website already has that.