Television

Rewatching Foundation season one and realizing it would have worked much better if it hadn’t been told as a jumble of flashbacks and “35 years earlier”. The material is too dense, and early scenes make references to things the viewer would not understand yet because they haven’t been revealed.

There’s nothing wrong with a linear narrative. It’s especially annoying when non-linear is used as a crutch to add mystery when it’s not needed. Seems to be a fad in the past couple of years.