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It’s weird, I barely watch any shows these days.
Everything just feels so over saturated and “checklisty”.
I’ll make an exception occasionally and there is stuff that grabs my attention, but most stuff just seems like “Tubu’s third fantasy show release of the year to hit the quota”…
I saw an article the other day talking about how poorly most shows from the past 5-10 years are performing compared to older shows. The top streamed shows are largely from the late 90s to early 2010s.
It truly feels like we're in a quality rut right now.
Not aided by an aversion to commitment. Netflix especially loves to cancel shows after one or two seasons... despite a decade of The Office being their bread and butter. They should be promising creators a budget directly correlated with some desirable metric. Your thing is what five million subscribers are obviously sticking around for? Here's half the budget of last year, when it was ten. You can decide whether that's enough to do another season. Oh it was? And it worked? And now it's twenty million? Great, here's a shitload of money, keep going.
For some reason Netflix seems to be more interested in new subscribers than keeping their current subscribers. Probably because a lot of users just keep the account once they get it, even if they don't use it all that much.