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They’ll probably pin it on the actors and writers when we all know it’s because they lost subscribers to their no password sharing policy.
lost subscribers to their no password sharing policy.
What, we’re just gonna gloss over how absolutely dogshit their in-house “Netflix Originals” media has become?
It’s also because their current shows suck, and because any shows that are actually good get shitcanned after season 2, because Netflix sees less consumer growth after two seasons.
Their saving grace is stuff like Black Mirror but to be fair that didn’t start out as a Netflix original and Charlie Brooker has tight control over his property.
When they started Netflix Originals, they knocked a bunch of them out of the park, now they just make weak trash with bad CGI, costumes, and makeup.
Stuff like 13 Reasons Why or The Witcher are just straight up irredeemable trash.
Also their non-fiction is pretty bad too. It’s almost as bad as Amazon Prime now.
Graham Hancock’s series “Ancient Apocalypse” on there is essentially nonsense.
Why did it get approved? Because his son is senior manager of unscripted originals!
Also, they have a documentary on the “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live to 100 regularly. This is pseudoscience that has been exposed as poor record keeping for years.
I mean, they employ people who are clearly completely out of touch and don’t give a shit about anything but making money. They don’t care about controversy as long as people are just talking about it and not suing them or bringing legal charges against them.
Ryan Murphy apparently can’t figure out that since nobody wants to talk to him about this that maybe it was a bad idea to begin with. Pretty much all the families and friends of victims thought the whole thing was in incredibly poor taste. Apparently all of them rejecting being involved wasn’t enough to clue Ryan Murphy into this being incredibly offensive to them.
But Netflix doesn’t care about anything but money.
Like when they removed an episode Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’s show in Saudi Arabia because they didn’t want to offend anyone.
Reed Hastings on that decision:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/netflix-reed-hastings-saudi-arabia-patriot-act
“We’re not in the news business,” Hastings said at the New York Times’ DealBook conference, per Variety, of the decision to remove the episode after Saudi Arabia threatened legal action. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain…We don’t feel bad about that at all.”
Same reason they consulted with suicide prevention organizations on 13 Reasons Why: got told that this show would increase copycat suicides and it was written in a way that glorified suicide, but fuck it, who cares, let’s make some money and throw this up on Netflix!
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/05/526871398/facts-about-teens-suicide-and-13-reasons-why
Even when they’re told by everyone not to do it, Netflix does it because money matters more.
It’s also because their current shows suck, and because any shows that are actually good get shitcanned after season 2, because Netflix sees less consumer growth after two seasons.
I’m always surprised at how often other people (not you) will defend this practice from Netflix. It’s classic case of following the data in a stupid way. If their data shows that interest drops off after two seasons, I don’t doubt it.
But… that comes with a cost. They have built a reputation as a company that doesn’t properly finish shows that they start, that will leave viewers hanging. That makes it harder to get people invested in a new series, even one that’s well reviewed. Why get interested in something you know will end on a cliffhanger?
That kind of secondary order impact from their decision isn’t going to show up in data. Doesn’t change that it happens all the same.
Just gotta say you fucking nailed it. The long-term knock-on effect of people not wanting to start a new Netflix show only to like it and for it to be cancelled is too real.
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Does anyone else feel like Blockbuster might be getting a comeback story?
