This is the restult of driving your business with short-term metrics. These series probably didn't hit the right taste clusters [1]. People are only willing to

This is the restult of driving your business with short-term metrics. These series probably didn't hit the right taste clusters [1]. People are only willing to get burned a limited number of times with getting invested in a show and having it prematurely cancelled. At some point this will impact viewership of new shoes as people don't want to get burned. In my case, I will never forgive Netflix for cancelling Mindhunter. Even Ozark, which was very good, was rushed to finish in a 4th season, to its detriment. I saw an author complaining about people doing this with books, arguing readers were the problem because this affects what gets published. Readers (and viewers) don't owe you a living. I got burned on book series years ago, promising to only start finished series. I started a trilogy called a Song of Ice and Fire in 2002 (of course not knowing it wasn't a trilogy) after the whole Robert Jordan decade long saga. Google has the same problem with new projects: people expect them to get cancelled. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Apple does this much better. Apple keeps plugging away at Apple Pay and it's a payment powerhouse now after many eyars. How many iterations have we had of Google Checkout, Google Wallet, Google Pay, Android Pay, etc have we had? IME HBO is still th eking of seeing things through. It's had some series cancelled prematurely (notably Deadwood, Rome and the abomination that was the last 2 seasons of Game of Thrones) but it has a good track record. Some Netflix series have had a satisfactory ending (eg Bojack Horseman) but so many don't. Even Prime is better (eg Bosch). Netflix is using metrics that'll turn it into a cheap reality TV content farm. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAbh39aoU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAbh39aoU8