Are short-form series the next big thing on Netflix?

The Ringer

Netflix has released a few shows running less than 20 minutes per episode this year, including Special, the Chinese-language Flavorful Origins and Love, Death & Robots. "But while Love, Death and Flavorful Origins are more experimental, Special feels like a return to streaming TV’s earliest roots," says Alison Herman. "The structure is a familiar, Girls-influenced kind of bildungsroman, complete with an unpaid internship at an exploitative media company. Like Hulu’s recent Shrill, Special takes place in a sort of time warp in order to reflect its inspiration’s experience in the years before they got their own TV show."