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Netflix apparently has several problems: 1. You can spend more money for more quality, but there are diminishing returns. The price goes up faster than the qua

Netflix apparently has several problems: 1. You can spend more money for more quality, but there are diminishing returns. The price goes up faster than the quality does . 2. Spending more money doesn't guarantee higher quality, it is possible to produce expensive flops. So making fewer more expensive movies and shows increases their risk considerably. 3. As the studios and networks have shut off the content spigot in favor of their own streaming services, Netflix has a very large inventory hole to fill. Binge watching exacerbates this problem as it is easily possible for a user to consume an entire season over a weekend or even over a day, since some seasons are only eight episodes. I think Netflix is going to try to spend their money a bit more strategically, perhaps changing the "season" model to something more flexible. Or maybe going the "feature film as pilot" route. There are problems with this in terms of locking down the availability of the key talent, but Netflix has been having good success with giving actor/writer/director/producer folks a piece of the action (eg. Jason Bateman is lead actor, director, and producer on Ozark), so maybe they can make that work. Alternatively, if they continue with the spaghetti against the wall strategy, maybe they can do something about cancelled series ending in an abrubt never-to-be-resolved fashion. Either getting writers to eschew cliffhangers, or produce an ending episode that is only uploaded if the show is cancelled, or something.

thevagrant 4y ago
Netflix absolutely needs to stop cancelling abruptly. They must use their internal metrics to decide that a show isnt attracting a critical mass fast enough, then they cancel. I know there sometimes are other reasons due to increased costs of actors for following seasons etc but... I have avoided almost every show that Netflix canceled abruptly without a conclusive ending. I don't watch a lot (time constraints) so I check carefully before I choose to watch a new show. Netflix is full of shows I would have watched if they hadn't cancelled them. Their current strategy is ' leave a sour taste on enthusiast forums everywhere ' informing people like me to not waste my time. I'm a year or 3 behind others in my viewing schedule and I know many in the same boat. As someone who grew up reading Robert Jordan or watched Breaking Bad from the first season, you learn to wait for some shows or products to be complete before engaging.
- webmaven 4y ago
  > As someone who grew up reading Robert Jordan or watched Breaking Bad from the first season, you learn to wait for some shows or products to be complete before engaging. Hah. Pamela Sargent's Venus trilogy was my Wheel of Time. Venus of Dreams and Venus of Shadows came out in 1986 and 1988 respectively. The third volume Child of Venus only came out in 2001. It was a good book, but it seemed as though the author was a different person at that point, so it wasn't very satisfying to read. Currently, I'm annoyed at the lack of followup volumes to Diane Duane's Omnitopia Dawn, which came out in 2010. I haven't read any of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, and won't until it is done.

thevagrant 4y ago

Netflix absolutely needs to stop cancelling abruptly. They must use their internal metrics to decide that a show isnt attracting a critical mass fast enough, then they cancel. I know there sometimes are other reasons due to increased costs of actors for following seasons etc but... I have avoided almost every show that Netflix canceled abruptly without a conclusive ending. I don't watch a lot (time constraints) so I check carefully before I choose to watch a new show. Netflix is full of shows I would have watched if they hadn't cancelled them. Their current strategy is ' leave a sour taste on enthusiast forums everywhere ' informing people like me to not waste my time. I'm a year or 3 behind others in my viewing schedule and I know many in the same boat. As someone who grew up reading Robert Jordan or watched Breaking Bad from the first season, you learn to wait for some shows or products to be complete before engaging.

webmaven 4y ago
> As someone who grew up reading Robert Jordan or watched Breaking Bad from the first season, you learn to wait for some shows or products to be complete before engaging. Hah. Pamela Sargent's Venus trilogy was my Wheel of Time. Venus of Dreams and Venus of Shadows came out in 1986 and 1988 respectively. The third volume Child of Venus only came out in 2001. It was a good book, but it seemed as though the author was a different person at that point, so it wasn't very satisfying to read. Currently, I'm annoyed at the lack of followup volumes to Diane Duane's Omnitopia Dawn, which came out in 2010. I haven't read any of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, and won't until it is done.