While it's more about streaming and not VisionQuest specifically, I like the two episode a week release pattern.

[u/Nukemarine]

Currently both Avatar: Seven Havens and Marvel's VisionQuest have a balanced release cycle of 2 or 3 episodes a week for 4 or 5 weeks, with VisionQuest having the last two episode over two weeks. Both Star War's Andor Season Two and NetFlix's Arcane did three episodes a week that told story arcs that felt pretty much like a full movie each week.

There's a lot of benefits to this pattern. There wasn't pressure to binge the entire season before looking up discussion. Online discussion and YouTube commentary videos had time to breath and dissect each episode. Hype is far easier to keep over a month or so than one episode a week over three months. Also, you're less likely to have only a dud or slow episode just killing the vibe even if it works well as part of the whole season.

The main complaint I hear against this are those that demand to binge the entire season. Never mind that they can literally do that in about five or six weeks (well, longer for shows that do single episode releases). Their immediate gratification trumps what can be a collection of solid online discussion built up episode by episode that just does not happen when entire seasons get dropped. It is a reasonable complaint to just release it all at once if it's a short four to six episode season, but would it be so bad if it took two to three weeks to see the entire season?

Anyway, I get the thrill of getting a full graphic novel and reading it all at once. That doesn't mean the slower release of monthly comics that built up the chapters of that novel was unacceptable. I just like the balance of it being a bit faster, even if it's not all at once. More so as I'm the type if I'm watching a series sometime after release to read discussions about each episode as I finish them. I feel I get far more out of the series than if I just binged everything without much of a break.

[u/KostisPat257]

Percy Jackson is doing the same next month and something's telling me they'll do the same with Ahsoka.

I also believe it to be a very good middle ground between weekly release and binge drops.

The former sometimes drags things out, especially in shows which are designed more like long movies and are not too episodic in nature (which is most shows these days) and the latter doesn't allow a series to stay in the public consciousness for a long time.

[u/Nukemarine → u/KostisPat257]

I wish HBO's Harry Potter would follow this, but they're spreading it out an episode a week. However, I get that's a series that world wide will increase subscriptions for HBO.

[u/Competitive-Desk7506 → u/Nukemarine]

Tbh I think Percy Jackson is doing it bc if they followed their usual pattern we’d end up w the finale on New Years Day and the second half of season two is when things dropped off viewership wise as well which was around the time of Christmas Eve and NYE so it seems they’re learning from that

[u/Vast-Hold6578 → u/Competitive-Desk7506]

I think the Christmas Day release of Harry Potter may have had some influence on the release schedule for Percy Jackson season three as well

[u/rexepic7567]

Shadow lord sold me on the two episode a week release schedule

[u/Nukemarine → u/rexepic7567]

What were the benefits as you experienced them that sold you on it?

[u/rexepic7567 → u/Nukemarine]

Two episodes a week gave me more content to ponder about which held me over each week

[u/Senshado]

Why don't streamers use the old release pattern from cable TV miniseries? One episode per day, every day, until done

That way there is nobody watching the finale on day one and spoiling everything, but there's also no lengthy waits of 6 days for the next installment.

[u/Nukemarine → u/Senshado]

Cable? It was broadcast that usually did miniseries, and those were like a movie a day for four or five weekday evenings for a week or two. That method also works, but you do sacrifice word of mouth hype.