In years gone by, a movie was a 90-minute program you'd go to a theater to see, and a TV show was a program you'd watch at home, intermittently interrupted with commercial advertisements. The separation between the two couldn't be clearer. In 2021, that's no longer the case.
We watch a lot at home, and my kids are constantly calling TV shows movies and vice versa. I totally get the confusion. The distinction between the two is totally breaking down, especially when you're a family like ours that doesn't sit down for 2 hours at a time, and breaks films into two or three viewing sessions.
So in 2021, what is it that makes a movie, and what makes a television program? Is it the total viewing time? Two hours for a movie and ten or more for a TV show? Is it built-in breaks between episodes? All these distinctions are breaking down. When you have a four hour movie like the Snyder cut of Justice League, which is broken into chapters, and compare it to a six hour program Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which is broken into episodes, there's nearly no clear-cut distinctions between the two.
Just something for you to think about over this long holiday weekend.