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It is strange that the Netflix deal has them waiting until all of season 2 has been aired. So lots of people internationally who would watch it on Netflix will

• btschaegg 10y ago
  Yeah, I was pondering on that for other shows already, too. However, I can imagine that made negotiations for them much easier (no-one who still uses a TV would watch their show on $DATE at $TIME when there's a VoD around). On the other hand, it is also nice to be able to schedule one's own progress in a show without having to go "what happened last week again?" each time. I'd argue it's even worth waiting for the Netflix "launch".
• Mayzie 10y ago
  > So lots of people internationally who would watch it on Netflix will be pirating it. Unfortunately that's what I have to resort to at the moment. I'm in Australia, and The Expanse is a marvellous series. I watched the first episode of the first series on Netflix when I couldn't find anything else to watch - I then binge-watched the entire first series at that point. Now that the second series is out, I am back to good ol' pirating each episode as they air in the United States, as there is no other way to obtain it. And because of this, Netflix will unfortunately miss out on me binge watching the second series on their platform and won't get the viewership / statistics for it because I would've already seen it. Why can they not do what they're doing for The Last Kingdom, another show I discovered on Netflix and subsequently love, and air the episodes in a weekly fashion as soon as they air in the producers domestic market? Oh well, their loss. And likely ours when the series will inevitably get cancelled due to "lack of viewership" :-(