I feel you but a 22-minute running time was the pressure cooker than gave us brilliant sit-coms like 30 Rock, just unparalleled JPM (jokes per minute). 34-minute comedy shows always drag. Almost every 57-minute streaming episode feels 10 minutes too long.
Tyler, from the InternetThere was a time when the commercials you'd have to endure on TV only took 2 minutes of 30. Then it was 4. Then 6. Soon 22 minutes was normal. People grew to hate commercials not because they existed per se, but because of the insatiable greed of the hungry ghosts atop the pyramid of capitalism.