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Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

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Re: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

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Post by autoexec »

Jeremy1026 wrote: post #7

Netflix is also abandoning shows after one season, so it's fair.

This is why I don't even start shows on Netflix anymore until I know they've either concluded or at least end in a place where I won't mind if they never come back. I've been burned by netflix too many times.

Re: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

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Fricken wrote: post #9
SubiculumCode wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And because they cancel them after one season?

Netflix execs have expressed envy over HBO's uncanny ability to make money off decades old IP. HBO still makes money off decades old IP because much of their decades old IP is made to the highest standards in television. Netflix's spreadsheet method of developing shows was a defacto attempt at trying make AI generated content before actual generative AI was available. We can all see clearly see how following that pat…

Netflix has made enough quality shows that I'm upset at how often they've canceled them before the story finishes. They can make good content. They just don't want to commit to seeing it through which leaves them left with a bunch of shows that will either be ignored by anyone who knows it doesn't have an ending or continue to disappoint and piss off their customers. Right now the first thing I ask someone who tells me about a new Netflix show they liked was "did it have a proper ending?", and if the answer is "No" I'm not even going to bother starting it.

Re: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

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Post by xquce »

To comment on the software/UX side: Well one reason might be how horrible Netflix is at handling what people have watched and if something you watch has a new season (outside of the week that season releases). AppleTV start the home screen with large trailer but with a watch list just below it, and that list then will display a show you watched to the end but that a new episode/season released on. Makes it much easier to watch new seasons of shows I've watched without having to manually remember and find them. Also Netflix insistance in recommendations of content you just watched (eg not taking watched status into account) just makes this even worse because shows with no new content are on same lists as shows with new..
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