Anyone Here a Fan of TV Anthologies?
In case you couldn't tell, we do love our TV anthology series! From A Man For All Seasons to seventies cult classic Thriller to Tales of the Unexpected; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Agatha Christie Hour... I love them all! And they don't all have to be anthologies of the suspense genre either, as I also enjoyed Storybook International which was a children's TV anthology - a collection of folk tales from around the world.
It takes great skill to come up with a whole load of characters and storylines for a series where the episodes are largely independent from each other. Not to mention fitting each storyline within the allocated time limit making sure all loose ends are neatly tied up. There's not going to be a 'to be continued' as that's not how anthologies work!
And more recently I've been coming across more and more TV anthology series such…
This is definitely one for my mum who's into things like short stories and films and things like that. My mum is a writer and she's said the same thing that Angel has in that there's a skill and technique that goes into creating any kind of 'short' where the reader/viewer doesn't feel as though everything is left unfinished and is left 'hanging'. I'm sure I've watched TV anthologies in the past although none spring to mind right now! 🙄 And I'd have to ask my mum which her faves are!