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Bingeing, Weekly, or Batches? Is There a Right Way to Roll Out a Series on Streaming?
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Weekly with batches seems to be the best.
Two-three episodes premiere, weekly episode release, two-three episode finale.
The Netflix method of splitting the season into two binges a month apart is the worst method. As the article notes the last season of Stranger Things did almost everything, a month or so delay, then the finale. That sucked and took a lot of wind out of the sails. They plan to do a similar thing with the finale season which is a mistake.
Disney+ has this right so far. Drop a few at once, next week drop a few more. Andor did it in three episode groups. Daredevil did smaller groups. Spider-Man did small groups. It's the best way.
If you want to drop it all at once, I'm in for that too, but I suspect that method is slowly going away.
Weekly releases is the "standard" and I'm good with that as long as it's actually weekly. Some shows that air on "regular TV" still have random skip weeks for sweeps or whatever stupid reason exists. I hate when an episode just isn't airing. I'm prepared for weekly, be weekly.