company known for cancelling shows after 1 season is surprised to discover their viewers are dropping shows after 1 season
Netflix viewers: “There is more than 1 season to these shows?”
Exactly.
That’s the glib interpretation but it’s more likely NetFlix knew we sucked all along and was acting accordingly than that they trained us only to watch one season.
Probably because Netflix has a habit of often cancelling shows after a season or two. Why should viewers get invested in a shot if there’s a good chance they will be cancelled?
Also, too many Netflix shows are pretty shit these days.
Yup I’ve decide I won’t watch a show that isn’t finished at this point. I’ve fallen in love with too many just to watch them get canceled.
The OA was so good and they fucking canceled it, I’ll never subscribe to their service ever again for that.
Season 2 was setup to be awesome.
Saaame. I got so angry when they canceled it. It broke my trust in them to deliver an end to any shows. Then they kept doing it. Left quite a long time ago and will not go back. There’s just nothing worth the money on Neflix.
Yup they just aren’t willing to allow a show to take time to establish themselves, many people won’t discover a show until its a few seasons in or even finished yet they can’t stand it if a show doesn’t get lots of views in season one.
The unskippable ads. They’re worth a lot of money, apparently.
Its not just Netflix these days. Every new show seems to start their life on the chopping block. If the first season doesn’t get enough views in the first few days its out then season two doesn’t even get made. If it does do okay then they get to start writing a second season, which means another 2 years before we get a second season and by then we have completely forgotten the show until you read about it getting cancelled 2 weeks after season 2 came out because nobody tuned in.
The costs have ballooned too much. When seasons were 18 episodes and it costs $100k per episode, it made sense to serialize. Often they were written as they were filmed. Now every episode costs $10 million and preproduction takes a year before the first scene can be filmed with massive post production. No one has really cracked the formula for making TV formats work well on streaming services. The all at once for binge watching only works if you already have a massive archive of shows to expose. The one episode a week for short boutique series that run a season every 3 years is not working well either.
…I’m not really sure why they care. In 99% of cases, there’s only one extra season to watch anyway because Netflix cancelled the fucking show.
Yes, I’m still salty about Santa Clarita Diet, why do you ask?
Kaos for me. Will be pissed about that show being cancelled until I fucking die
Sense8 here
It had such a unique concept and they did a great job at executing it
So what if it was horny that was part of the charm
The biggest issue is they take years between seasons. People lose interest.
The first two shows they mention coming out with a season 2 recently had their season 1 release in 2023!
Yeah two years for six episodes and I just don’t give a shit anymore.
I refuse to start watching a show until it’s finished. I get to watch the entire series at my own pace (no waiting a week between episodes or years between seasons), I avoid stewing in my opinions and reading public opinion during the hiatus and having that affect my enjoyment of the next season, and I don’t have to worry about the abrupt emotional disturbance of a premature cancelation. The only downside is having to avoid spoilers and not being able to join in conversation with others who are actually watching it while it originally airs.
Netflix started it.
A whole story in 3 words.
Most story lines need to end in a single season.
I would argue most tv show now only need to be 1 season long but they either pad them out so much it’s insufferable OR create needless drama that i do not care about to keep the show going
Netflix, where the medium of storytelling goes to die.
Second-screen content intensifies
My experience with Netflix shows tends to go like this: I hear about a new show from people at work (or maybe here). I watch and enjoy season 1. I never hear about the show again until someone mentions that there sad it was cancelled after additional seasons I never heard about.
Personally, I find it hard to watch things when I don’t know they exist.
Avatar has been pretty much a let down just like cowboy bebop. I really wanted it to be good, but they did this really strange with changing the characters personalities and corrupting the flow of the story.
One piece has been good so far but I got the impression it might be pulling back on the main character.
Edit just finished episode 2 of season 2 of the live action avatar. That was much better than I expected. My hope has been restored.
I wasn’t predjudiced because I’d had zero exposure to any of þe original material, books or animated, so I was able to enjoy Cowboy Bebop and was sad it was cancelled.
That’s fair, I probably am being too harsh on it. I did want to see season 2 of it before I wrote it off entirely.
I read a lot of fans didn’t like it, which I completely understand. It’s just a good example of how expectations can shape enjoyment. I knew þe name but noþing else about þe story, and þought it was great: great acting, decent FX, interesting story; I was looking forward to seeing where it went.
I haven’t tried þe original, but I’ve never liked most Anime and would probably dislike it because it wasn’t more like þe live-action :-)
Why should viewers be interested, when Netflix treats its shows like draft ideas that more often than not get scrapped after one season?
Season 1, 8 Episodes of “mid quality but has potential and I’m invested”. After this, there are 3 possibilities:
- Show gets cancelled before season 2 because people weren’t interested enough
- Show gets cancelled after season 2 because people weren’t interested enough (2 years later)
- It’s Stranger Things
Bring back Kaos then you fucks
The time between seasons is sometimes way too long, people move on eventually.
they are so proud of their personalized recommendations. why don’t they just push the new season to viewers of the last when it becomes available
Shows are lucky to last even one season on Netfucks, let alone two. Inside Job should NOT have been cancelled.
Netflix killed Inside Job but made 8 seasons of Big Mouth. They deserve what they’re getting.
