- ramsgrl909@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
I would argue most tv show now only need to be 1 season long but they either pad them out so much it’s insufferable OR create needless drama that i do not care about to keep the show going
- CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
company known for cancelling shows after 1 season is surprised to discover their viewers are dropping shows after 1 season
- 15 hours
The time between seasons is sometimes way too long, people move on eventually.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
they are so proud of their personalized recommendations. why don’t they just push the new season to viewers of the last when it becomes available
1 dayProbably 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.
- 17 hours
Its not just Netflix these days. Every new show seems to start their life on the chopping block. If the first season doesn’t get enough views in the first few days its out then season two doesn’t even get made. If it does do okay then they get to start writing a second season, which means another 2 years before we get a second season and by then we have completely forgotten the show until you read about it getting cancelled 2 weeks after season 2 came out because nobody tuned in.
- dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
The costs have ballooned too much. When seasons were 18 episodes and it costs $100k per episode, it made sense to serialize. Often they were written as they were filmed. Now every episode costs $10 million and preproduction takes a year before the first scene can be filmed with massive post production. No one has really cracked the formula for making TV formats work well on streaming services. The all at once for binge watching only works if you already have a massive archive of shows to expose. The one episode a week for short boutique series that run a season every 3 years is not working well either.
Yup I’ve decide I won’t watch a show that isn’t finished at this point. I’ve fallen in love with too many just to watch them get canceled.
The OA was so good and they fucking canceled it, I’ll never subscribe to their service ever again for that.
- sychthys@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
Saaame. I got so angry when they canceled it. It broke my trust in them to deliver an end to any shows. Then they kept doing it. Left quite a long time ago and will not go back. There’s just nothing worth the money on Neflix.
Yup they just aren’t willing to allow a show to take time to establish themselves, many people won’t discover a show until its a few seasons in or even finished yet they can’t stand it if a show doesn’t get lots of views in season one.
- DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
…I’m not really sure why they care. In 99% of cases, there’s only one extra season to watch anyway because Netflix cancelled the fucking show.
Yes, I’m still salty about Santa Clarita Diet, why do you ask?
Kaos for me. Will be pissed about that show being cancelled until I fucking die
- EonNShadow@pawb.socialEnglish16 hours
Sense8 here
It had such a unique concept and they did a great job at executing it
So what if it was horny that was part of the charm - 21 hours
Agreed. I would happily fight in a fierce battle with each Netflix executive, akin to Street Fighter II, to make them to pay.
- RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
Yeah two years for six episodes and I just don’t give a shit anymore.
- acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
I agree. Other people are referencing how Netflix cancels shows after one season, but that doesn’t seem relevant here. We’re talking about people who do watch season 1 but not season 2.
- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish24 hours
Only for mediocre shows tbh. It took 3 years for Severance S2 and it was highly awaited still. Now after S2 I’m even more excited for S3 and don’t care if they take 2 or 3 years as long as the quality stays there.
But I don’t remember when Netflix had something I was so excited for.
Wait, I do actually. The Witcher. Super excited, didn’t care that they took 2 years… But then S2 was nowhere near as great as S1 and S3 just took a nosedive.
There’s a reason S1 was highly memed and the other seasons not.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish1 day
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.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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?
- Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
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
- Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
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
- InvalidName2@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
I can’t view the article, so I have a perfectly valid excuse for living my life like a Redditor – making a comment based on the headline only.
I don’t know if I’m one of those netflix viewers who has abandoned shows after one season. I’m not even sure how I could know. Netflix is by far the worst of the major streaming platforms in terms of obscuring their library. Their user experience choices are so heavily focused on making sure everybody’s watching the same 20 or 30 movies/shows that they tune literally everything else out. I’m not on Netflix 24/7 and I don’t tend to keep up with showbiz news. I know lots of people rotate streaming services. It’s very easy to see why folks would not be aware of additional seasons of a show being out.
The other issues that stifle my interest in shows applies to other services as well. The modern era’s long-ass gaps between seasons kills the inertia. Sure, I liked the season that came out 2 years ago, but I hardly remember it and I just don’t have time to try and go back to catch up. Of course there are recaps, but those by nature leave stuff out. Most likely unless that first season was really damn good, I just won’t bother.
Even so, it seems like a lot of these shows peak in their first season, lose the plot in the second, and then by the fourth or fifth season you’re essentially watching a headless male mantis clinging to life just long enough to finish the job. So, a lot of times if the first season isn’t absolutely stellar, I end up putting the show on my abyss of a watch list, likely never to return.
- dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.caEnglish22 hours
It’s kind of interesting you say this. When I go on my Netflix account, I see the same 20-30 things. Gets old and I can never find anything I want to watch. When I’m at my friends and open her Netflix, it’s like a completely different service. I see a ton of things that look interesting that I’ve never seen on my own account. It’s quite strange.
- elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish10 hours
I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions when they all started pulling price shenanigans.
Now I either use Stremio, properly “Arrified”, or sail the high seas with qbitorrent, which, by the way, has a very good search function not enabled by default, and which many people don’t know about. (Google qbitorrent search jackett)
To look for things I usually go to rotten tomatoes.
Also, there are frequent posts here or on other sites where people post their favorite shows/movies, which are often great for discovering less known shows.
- 16 hours
Their new UI made it godawful to find anything. It’s got to be one of the worst UI updates I’ve ever seen in a modern service.
You can only see 4 things at once on my large screen TV. Then if you have the audacity to scroll down to see more, you’re almost always greeted with one of the same ones in that group of 4. Then they throw games in there to just fuck up your attempt to find anything, and then because you watched one thing 10 years ago, it decides to still show you this category of show you don’t like “because you watched xyz show”.
I hate it so much.
- LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish22 hours
Absolutely, all of this. I cancelled Netflix, in part because it had become impossible to navigate, it’s a junk box. You could be scrolling for hours looking for something inspiring you to watch it, nothing. Everything they make is bland, basic and sanitised, like what Disney did to family movies, it’s torture to watch, so unengaging. (Plus all the evil, and price rises, so it was easy to leave).
I’m not sure if I am one who has abandoned a show after one season. I’m not even sure how I could know
You can’t remember what you watched?
- WindyRebel@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
No, and he’s not the only one. So much shit can happen in a season of a show and then you get season 2 over a year later when you’ve watched like 10-20 other shows and you can’t remember side characters, side plots, or even finales.
As they said, many times the recaps leave a lot of stuff out that would actually be beneficial to a user. I wish I could recount an example, but I notice it as I watch the recap and sometimes it triggers a memory. I have these discussions with my wife who doesn’t remember what I do about some shows and vice versa.
Edit: I recently experienced this with both Vox Machina and Invincible.
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.
- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish24 hours
Did we get a season 2?
Sure, in the show’s universe, switching actors made complete sense. They literally can put their consciousness in another body, it’s the entire premise, yes. Anthony Mackie isn’t a bad actor whatsoever. I liked him in The Banker, Pain & Gain and some other shit he’s done. Yet, to me, the show went to shit as soon as he became Kovacs. Just seemed like a huge tonal shift the show didn’t need. And it’s been a while, but if I remember correctly, the character felt like a completely different person, not same guy in new body.
- scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish24 hours
Yeah, the only similarity between them was the name of the character. They didn’t sound or act similar. It would have been neat if you could recognize the character despite the different appearance.
The first season had flashbacks of his old body, and it felt like it made more sense. The change in accent was a bit offputting, but can be reasonably explained away. Mackie just felt like a completely different character.
- Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish1 day
Why should viewers be interested, when Netflix treats its shows like draft ideas that more often than not get scrapped after one season?
- 1 day
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.
