The action in Game of Thrones may have been unpredictable from season to season, but one element was almost always the same: every season except the last aired annually around spring, with the monumental final season needing another year to finish. But since the show’s 2019 finale, the pace of television has slowed to a crawl. Fans waited more than two years for a new season of The Mandalorian, and almost three years for a season of Stranger Things.
