This post reminded me of a blog called The Nihon Review which was active more than fifteen years ago. They were cool people (they had an IRC channel, so you could chat with them) and saved many a series from obscurity thanks to very thoughtful reviews and essays. I wish they came back.
@coolboymew I agree. It makes no sense. What these people did was watch the episodes (not all of them, but those that were interesting in some way, or from a popular series everybody was talking about) and examine the themes, the characters, where the story could go from there, etc. They were more an essays blog than a reviews one. (I remember one about K-ON and the “new moe”, I think they called it.)
I think we could use something like that these days. You and @noyoushutthefuckupdad do something similar, I believe.
But an episode review site, instead of reviewing the whole thing, is just kinda absurd IMO