Why do you think this works better as a 10-episode event, rather than a longer series?
Showrunner Chad Hodge: I always envisioned it really as a limited run thing, because it was based on these books and I knew that the reveal of what Wayward Pines comes at the end of the first of three books, and so that was going to be something that was going to happen relatively soon in the series. I was interested in sort of telling the story in the way that the author told it and that lent itself to a more compact event series.And also, I think people like watching TV like that these days. They like things that are a shorter commitment, they can binge-watch the whole thing, they can watch it live and participate in the social discussion of it. But we all have less and less time, it seems. As TV lover, things that are limited series, I’m more willing to engage with them and commit to them because I know I’m going to get answers and reveals and be on the edge of my seat and then 10 episodes later, I’ll feel like there was a beginning, middle and an end. And then, should it do so well that, you know, Fox wants to do a second season, there’s absolutely an opening for that, storytelling wise.
Source: Variety
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