Stranger Things is finally dropping part one of its final season, after a long three-year wait. And as excited as we are for it, it is emblematic of an annoying trend in television these days—the excruciatingly long wait between seasons. And while Stranger Things is hardly alone in this regard, it sure feels like it popularized the trend. It certainly normalized it for shows of its size and popularity. And we don’t mean series that ended or were canceled, only to be revived decades later, like Arrested Development or Twin Peaks . That is another beast entirely.

To be fair, we don’t want to imply that Stranger Things was the first television show to take an extra-long hiatus between seasons. Let’s get that out of the way first. British television has been doing that for decades

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