Some reasons I prefer series to movies.
I like series more than movies because series are longer: they provide me longitude pleasure (if it's really good one). Series character become close and understandable to me, so I love them. For example, "Once upon a time in America" could be much longer than it is, despite it's about 4 hours. I suppose, everybody dreams his favorite film to be directed as a series with the same actors, decorations, story. If a film is a pleasure to see, it is always wanted to never ends. There is also a kind of "feedback": a good series like "The Scrubs" or "Friends" couldn't be filled all in two or three hours; their story develops and changes, bringing new characters, connection with some present events like "TBBT". Also sometimes a book, on which was based a film, concludes more details and key points and without them the true meaning would be lost- it's impossible to make a film, based on "The Game of Thrones" or to tell all parts of "Harry Potter" in one time. However, a film is more static- there are no shitty seasons or characters, it is more discretic in "0-1" scale. In my opinion, if a film is better than the same world soap operas, it's really cool. Or the series are dull. Well, that's not all but enough.
I agree with you about pleasure of watching series that it lasts longer than with watching movies. This summer and beginning of fall I watched 4 seasons of some series. The main reason of watching this series, however, was not getting pleasure of watching (despite these series were extremely interesting and addictive), but learning English. I watched all 4 seasons in English and I am sure I improved my listening skills very much. Advantage of series is you stay in one context for a long time and can catch more information from the film. I believe it is more useful for me at my English level than watching rather short movies.
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