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human
ELI5: Why the writer/showrunner has the creativity control of a TV series but in a movie/film its the director's job....

And the writer/showrunner gets more credit in a TV series than the director, while in a movie/film the director does and the writer barely gets any.
Im not a movie expert/student and its been bugging me for as long I can remember, the concept just seems weird to me.
gpt
TV shows have multiple directors who each handle different episodes. That means they need an extra job role that is higher that controls continuity between episodes and handles the arcs that cross multiple episodes or the whole series. Movies are more self contained.