Film Sack Round Table - TV Series as LONG Movies

Film Sack

Scott Johnson

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Sometimes, a great mini-series is really just a 3 to 6 hour movie, and we think we know a lot of these that fit! And not only that, but ones you should have on your list!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special episode, a roundtable, if you will, episode of FilmSack.
0:13.6	That's right.
0:14.3	Scott Johnson here.
0:15.6	Right over there, we got the two Bryans, Brian Dibbitt, Brian Dunaway.
0:19.0	Hello.
0:19.4	Hello.
0:20.2	And over there, the one Randy that we have, just the one. Oh. It's me, the one Randy. It's a you, the Randy. We're all here together to talk to you, the film sac, listening audience, about a topic as follows. Now, this is a little bit hard to define. We're going to get into that in a minute, but TV series that feel like one long movie. Right. And yes, last week I threw out, yeah, I threw out Band of Brothers last week as an example. I guess we can bring it up again. Think of something like a big, I mean, that's a limited series. So it's not like a, you know, 12 season thing. So that may be one of the breakers here.
0:54.2	It needs to be a shorter thing.
0:53.0	Yeah, I mean, is the key to this that it's a limited series and not an ongoing? Right. Yes. That's an important part. Kind of season thing. Sure. Right. And so like lost. Right. Which is one story arc, but over multiple seasons. One long movie that loses its way about halfway through.
1:16.1	Finds it, but lost so much of its audience before it gets to the... There you go.
1:16.7	Right.
1:16.9	And I feel like the definition has to start with what is a movie to you, and I think there's going to be a time limit.
1:24.3	There's going to be some maximum time limit beyond which you wouldn't consider
1:29.4	something a movie, right? Like, the Lord of the Rings extended editions are each movies.
1:35.6	I've seen the Brue list. Right. You wouldn't take all three extended editions, put them
1:41.9	together and say, that's like one 12 hour long movie.
1:45.2	No, it's three movies.
1:47.2	So what, so like my, the initial examples that really come to mind for me were Chernobyl.
1:54.0	Because even though it's divided up into episodes, you can run them together so hard.
1:59.5	Like there's not even really, the ending of each episode isn't even really a flash. You know, it's just like, just carrying on from where we just left on. Yeah, they don't even, they don't even. It's based on one event. Right. So it's like there's a beginning, middle, and end, it all happens within a specific event. Yeah. Five part series that one. It's only five parts. It's adjustable in that regard.
2:01.2	It's not...
2:02.2	Right.
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