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In Hollywood -- and Netflix is definitely Hollywood now -- nobody knows anything. William Goldman said it. If they could invest in only the hits, they would.
by dsr_ 3y ago
In Hollywood -- and Netflix is definitely Hollywood now -- nobody knows anything. William Goldman said it.
If they could invest in only the hits, they would.
If they could reliably improve their customers' happiness with their service, at minimal cost, they would.
If they could cut down on the expense of actors and sets and writers, they would.
- tessierashpool 3y agoand since paying talent less is the only one of those things which is easy to figure out, that’s the one the executives focus on. recently a lot of Netflix’s most successful shows had deals where the creative team got paid more with each successive season. someone at Netflix set this up to incentivize binge-able shows, but since then, someone else decided it cost too much. so a lot of popular shows got canceled.
- nicce 3y ago> If they could invest in only the hits, they would. Apple TV has been quite good for this. There isn't really bad show so far.
- extra88 3y ago'Invasion' was so slow, all the characters on 'The Shrink Next Door' so unlikeable, I regret the time I spent watching both of them. I normally don't give up on shows and at least watch seasons to the end but I stopped after the second episode of 'Hello Tomorrow!' (on paper, it should be a winner for me).
- atombender 3y agoI agree that they've done well, but they've had plenty of clunkers even at this stage. I was deeply disappointed by The Big Door Prize, for example, an unimaginative and saccharine soap for the Oprah Book Club crowd. Plenty of other shows were disappointing to me: Shrinking, Loot, See, Dr. Brain, Liaison, Dr. Corman. Some people liked them, of course.