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List of Best Rated TV Series as voted by the Fediverse
When it's anywhere from 1-3 years between seasons, what do they expect. By the time the next season comes out they're lucky if I even remember the show.
That's also not accounting for how many times they announced they canceled a show upon releasing the second season (which ends on a cliff hanger) - Inside Job and Spaceforce for example.
I wonder how many of these are from fans that simply left the service. I actually really liked the live action Avatar first season, but since watching it I've canceled Netflix because of the ads and price increases. If their service hadn't enshittefied so much so fast I would have watched the second season.
Also if your release schedule is episode 1 in January and episode 10 in July you can consider me your #1 fan if I still remember your show exists in February.
Netflix viewer can't watch a season 2 if it doesn't fucking exist. Don try to pit users not having any sort of investment in content they're not even sure will come back for a season 2.
So glad I ditched that shit. Always a disappointment looking through their catalog
To be fair, so is Netflex. They stop production of most of their shows after one or two seasons.
Netflix viewers are abandoning Netflix.
At least I did. They kept raising their prices, and it was harder and harder to find anything to watch.
dumped netflix altogether. The oldies have vanished from the library and the new stuff is AI slop.
I’m still mad about Santa Clarita Diet
And GLOW. I will never trust again.
Both of those, and also The Dark Crystal. I have to imagine a second season would have been much cheaper to produce than the first, since all the initial puppetry development work was already done. But still no joy.
I just can't believe that show cost enough to cancel after a few seasons instead of giving it a proper conclusions.
Surely none of this is influenced by how much they push starting new shows rather than previously watched stuff.
Netflix executives started it.
Netflix: quantity vs quality.
Apple TV: quality vs quantity.
Change "are" to "is" and remove "viewers", and the headline works just as well
If Netflix leadership was smart, they would encourage shows to write each season as self contained. That way the show could live on after cancellation. As it is, there is a ton of content on the channel that people will not start watching because they know it doesn’t end properly.
Or won't start until they know the next season is out. That's saved me... but then I cancelled so I don't have to think about it anymore.
Netflix has many shows that should've had more seasons but didn't and probably never will (Mindhunter), a few shows that had confusing or cliffhanger endings that made you think there should've been another season but there wasn't (Ozark) and a bunch of shows that never should've had their last few seasons (too many examples to list).
Honorable mention to shows that had a "mid" most recent season and then fell into apparent development hell (Unsolved Mysteries).
a few shows that had confusing or cliffhanger endings that made you think there should've been another season but there wasn't (Ozark)
https://animenextseason.com/ozark-season-5/
No. Ozark Season 5 is not happening and was never going to happen. Netflix announced the show would end after Season 4 in June 2020, two full years before the finale aired. The series concluded on April 29, 2022.
Yeah I understand that. But if you watch the final season of that show it was pretty unsatisfying in a lot of ways and made it seem like there should've been another season, even if another wasn't planned.
It's hard to watch anything these days. It's like newer actors are pretending to be actors.
I feel like in the old days you could see the passion in people's eyes and sense the emotions.
This has actually come up in several movie breakdowns and has pointed to the issue of more people using botox and how it is destroying how they convey facial expressions. And now, actors are having to act differently because their forehead and outer sides of their eyes literally don't work like they are supposed to.
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Because most Netflix shows these days suck ass.
As well, why bother getting invested if it's probably going to get cancelled anyways.
I can only offer a personal anecdote as explanation, but I don't have the time or mental bandwidth to keep up with all the multi-season shows and new releases as they come out. I need to space them out throughout the year to make sure I'm enjoying them all and will often come back to stuff months after it has fully released. If a new season is being released in a weekly format (or even worse in the case of Stranger Things), I won't count towards its initial viewing figures.
A show like Avatar is something I will get around to eventually, but I'm not going to drop everything and obsessively watch a new season from day one. Another show I really like, Sugar on Apple TV, is one that I feel works better as a binge watch so I will wait until its weekly run is over before I slot it in. One of the few shows I do actually watch week by week from day one at the moment is House of the Dragon on HBO, because it's a big enough spectacle with long enough episodes and enough weekly talking points, that it's a better experience for me when prioritised like that.
Of course, I don't pay for Netflix, Apple TV or HBO and wouldn't count towards their metrics anyway, but I wonder if their actual customers are doing something similar. These companies seem very quick to jump to conclusions about seasonal viewership declines and don't seem to see the value in overlooking short-term losses to prioritise the creation of a complete show that will keep people coming back for years after it has concluded.
Thanks. I get why people post archive links, but I have a paywall bypass extension so I'd rather just click through to the original link to save time and not have it reformatted all weird.
Meh. I'm not going to pay for Netflix. Free media heck yeah or bust. My free public library has many options.