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> This was also the period where Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make and less likely to get brand-new subscribers around season 3. T
by kaibee 3y ago
> This was also the period where Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make and less likely to get brand-new subscribers around season 3.
This isn't the only reason I stopped watching shows, but its certainly a contributing factor. Kinda gets old seeing some cool first season setup a bunch of interesting story arcs, great show, etc and then cancelled.
- greiskul 3y agoYeah, if Netflix wants to do short shows, they should follow the British model of TV series. Short series but with a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. Not this bunch of half started stories that just stop.
- starttoaster 3y agoNetflix is just following the Japanese model of animated series where you put out an incredibly strong season one and then cut all funding to it.
- _v7gu 3y agoMost of those are just advertisements for the source material. Anime originals plan things out and wrap up nicely (unless Gainax, but even that is an old meme now)
- usefulcat 3y agocough 1899 cough I'd been a Netflix streaming subscriber since.. I don't know when? As long as the service has existed, most likely, and DVDs before that. Even so, by earlier this year I'd already been thinking about cancelling for a while. Much of their content seems pretty mediocre these days, and there's just so much of it. When they cancelled a well executed first season show that was so clearly an introduction to a bigger story.. that really made the decision to cancel a no brainer.