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I agree with everything you wrote. We keep Disney+ because their family content is untouchable by anyone else. HBO/Apple we trade off every couple of months dep
by jurassic 4y ago
I agree with everything you wrote. We keep Disney+ because their family content is untouchable by anyone else. HBO/Apple we trade off every couple of months depending on what's new and what we are most interested in.
Netflix I subscribe to for about 1 month per year to binge the latest of whatever I'm watching (this year: Stranger Things, The Crown) and then cancel. Anything else (Hulu, etc) is a 1 month and churn kind of situation.
Netflix especially seems to be in a content death spiral of sorts. They cancel their original content so aggressively and often in such unsatisfying ways for the audience that I've decided I don't want to watch anything on Netflix until after it is an established success with multiple seasons produced. I wish they would put more wood behind fewer arrows. Or maybe just make a move toward miniseries so at least the audience can have a satisfying beginning, middle, and end to something they've invested time in watching. I would so much rather have 5-8 episodes that form a cohesive story, than a Season 1 that sets up a world and then never gets to go anywhere because some algorithm decided the show wasn't successful enough to continue.
- pnt12 4y agoI agree that the cancelations are terrible. In the short term, the viewers get pissed and cancel, in the long term, you get a catalog of incomplete works. I have great respect for HBO: The Leftovers is a great show but wasn't doing well. They threw the director a bone and gave him an extra season, the 3rd and final, to wrap things up. And what a memorable season it was! So glad they did it! On the other hand, they canceled Westworld, but that's been dragging on its feet for too long. So that's on the directors.