Fans of pop culture and series voracious of all kinds, have you ever wondered which episode was the longest in history? And no, it's not from Game Of Thrones but from a slightly lesser known work.
With the release of the next season of the cult series made in Netflix, Strangers Things , fans of Eleven and her band were surprised to see the length of the episodes of this highly anticipated fourth installment. If for the moment, nothing has been formalized, several sources have mentioned more than an hour per episode. The ninth and last, will even reach 2:30. All that remains is to confirm this on Friday, May 27. This inevitably raises questions:do you know the episode of a series, the longest in history?
In the world of series, there are two categories. The first counts works whose episodes do not exceed 20-22 minutes. These are usually sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory or How I Met Your Mother . Anime is also included in this category. The second concerns series with episodes of around 40 minutes. We find the classic shows, with more elaborate scenarios and heavier plots like Desperate Housewives or my first 7 seasons of Game of Thrones , the latter significantly increasing the duration. But this category is generally not the most appreciated because these "films" must be viewed one after the other to continue to follow the story and its adventures, and not everyone has time to watch multiple movies at once.
But in the end, what is the longest episode of a series on television or on the platform in history? It would concern the series Cesur ve Güzel (The Brave and the Beautiful). The Turkish production was broadcast between 2016 and 2017. But it has some peculiarities as reported by our colleagues from Opentapes.
The series evokes betrayals, love stories, family quarrels and was broadcast in Cyprus, Colombia, Pakistan and Italy. In our transalpine neighbors, the series will have had two seasons of respectively 55 and 92 episodes, while in Turkey, only 32. But the country of the Bosphorus Strait has a nuance, each episode sometimes lasts up to 159 minutes like the final episode whereas in the other countries they are sequences of 40 minutes. A record in the field. If you have a few hours to kill, we put an episode clip below.
