Probably because Netflix has a habit of often cancelling shows after a season or two. Why should viewers get invested in a shot if there's a good chance they will be cancelled?
Also, too many Netflix shows are pretty shit these days.
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The biggest issue is they take years between seasons. People lose interest.
The first two shows they mention coming out with a season 2 recently had their season 1 release in 2023!
I refuse to start watching a show until it's finished. I get to watch the entire series at my own pace (no waiting a week between episodes or years between seasons), I avoid stewing in my opinions and reading public opinion during the hiatus and having that affect my enjoyment of the next season, and I don't have to worry about the abrupt emotional disturbance of a premature cancelation. The only downside is having to avoid spoilers and not being able to join in conversation with others who are actually watching it while it originally airs.
Our family's policy is that we don't start a Netflix show until it has run its course and is over. We've had too many disappointments watching a show we like, only to have it get abruptly cancelled. There are too many other things to watch that won't pull the rug out from under us.
I'm sure Netflix hates this, but it's their own fault. We are only responding to their irresponsible programming nonsense.
Maybe because netflix cancels show a week after season 1 drops?
People got burnt too many times, best case scenario it's a huge hit and in 3 years we get a 8 hour season 2.
Why would viewers get invested?
Seems like a positive feedback loop:
- Netflix creates show that's pretty good
- People watch it
- Netflix takes too long to release season 2
- People forget show exists, stop watching
- Netflix drops a season years later
- No one watches it because they forgot what happened in season 1 and Netflix shows are so serial that you have to know what happened
- Netflix cancels show due to low viewership
- Fans of the show feel jilted and slam Netflix on social media
- Rinse and repeat
Don't forget the step in between 4 and 5 where Netflix recalculates the interest in season 2 and drastically changes the scope and pacing, making it more jarring for returning viewers or turning them off before the season drops
Or what about how the first fifteen minutes of each season 2 episode is just "last time on..." and viewers decide they don't have the time for this shit
Bring back Kaos then you fucks
Kaos was so good
Netflix couldn’t even finish Altered Carbon respectfully. Got a season 2 and some poor anime to finish it off.
Can’t trust em with any series really.
Why should viewers be interested, when Netflix treats its shows like draft ideas that more often than not get scrapped after one season?
I don't have netflix but, I sometimes will use my parents or grandparents account if i'm visiting their house.
I never got into netflix series mostly due to what has been said here already. There's no point of investment into a series with a company that has an ongoing reputation of cancelling shows even if they go well, and the ones that do get another season can have multi-year delays between it.
It's the same issue that a lot of the lesser known Anime's have, They get greenlit for 1 or 2 seasons, and by the time they get greenlit for s3 all momentum for people wanting to watch it is dead.
To me I would rather just wait and invest my time into something that is actually going to go somewhere, not get pitfalled into a cliffhanger and then never know what happens.
That's usually all they make
My experience with Netflix shows tends to go like this: I hear about a new show from people at work (or maybe here). I watch and enjoy season 1. I never hear about the show again until someone mentions that there sad it was cancelled after additional seasons I never heard about.
Personally, I find it hard to watch things when I don't know they exist.
Netflix's slop has got so bad. I scrolled and scrolled yesterday across the platforms before checking them and realised they are so far down my list I might cancel them. When I did get there they had nothing of interest across the whole of what the oresent on their front page.
Netflix, where the medium of storytelling goes to die.
i think that is normal? a season is supposed to be a good enough set of stories/episodes.
is there supposed to be more to expect?
It's a 50% drop. So 1/2 people watched season 1 and decided season 2 wasn't worth it. So the problem is specifically that they're not good enough stories/episodes.
Make a good second season then?