Monster/case of the week episodes are better than mythology/serialised episodes

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I'm watching Fringe for the first time, I'm only on season 1 and I'm really enjoying it. I think it's found a great balance between MOTW and the overarching mythology, I'm on episode 4 and so far every episode has had a mix of both. After I finish an episode I typically read a thread about it, and 9 times out of 10 someone will be saying how they wish the show was more serialised and apparently by the end its pretty much just a serialised show, so I suspect I will have trouble finishing it if that's the case! Same with The X-Files; the mythology episodes are awful and so boring, especially the longer it goes on, but you still get fans that want to totally skip the monster of the week episodes and JUST watch the mythology. It makes no sense to me, if all you want is mythology then just watch a movie, television wasn't designed to be one hundred hour long story it was supposed to be episodic, lots of little stories that help you get to know the characters on a deeper level. You can't do that in the streaming age because you only get 8 action packed episodes. I don't think people realised how good we had it for so long, now we pretty much have no shows with this format at all.

I watched Severance recently and I think this would’ve worked much better with more episodic elements (and more than 9 episodes in a season!). The story just moved too fast, things that should’ve been shocking were just moved on from and forgotten by the next episode. We should’ve had more time to get to know those characters and see their mundane daily lives, otherwise why not just make it a movie?

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