[Nicolai P. Zwar]

No such frustration on my part, at all. I don’t mind flashbacks and backstories any more or any less than any other filmic device, it just depends on how they are handled. I mean, some of what I consider to be among the greatest movies of all time are practically all flashback (I’m thinking of Citizen Kane and Sunset Boulevard here). I have neither adversity nor special fondness for any particular narrative technique, it’s the result what counts for me. I don’t watch many TV series though, perhaps the examples you mention don’t work, I don’t know. But I have no adversity to any filmic device as such.