Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Netflix/Everett Collection (Liam Daniel), Apple TV+
Remember Stranger Things? No, seriously — do you actually remember much of anything about the last season of one of Netflix’s biggest shows? Or, for that matter, what happened during the last seasons of HBO’s Euphoria or Apple TV+’s Severance? The last time any of those three shows premiered new episodes was during the first half of 2022, when Joe Biden had been president for barely a year and Nate Silver was teeing up Eric Adams as a future presidential nominee. This is where we are a decade into TV’s streaming era: The gap between show seasons can now sometimes be measured in presidential terms.
This is not normal — or, at least, it didn’t…
