There’s a cinematic equivalent of “this meeting could have been an email” where you get about two hours into a feature-length blockbuster and it occurs to you that this would have lost nothing meaningful if it had been a ten-minute short film on YouTube.
I would also volunteer “this miniseries should have just been a movie”.
See Kenobi. It’s a good story … that only really needed ninety minutes to two hours to tell. They had to really pad out the middle to stretch it out to a full season when it could have just been a movie.
Level 1: Miniseries that could have been a feature film.
Level 2: Feature film that could have been a short film.
Level 3: Short film that could have been a TikTok sketch.
Level 4: TikTok sketch that could have been a rage comic.
Level 5: Yeah, maybe just keep that one to yourself.