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Have they considered putting literally any description about shows up? I don't want to have to scroll through a list looking for something interesting and go to a second website to actually see what it is, and nor do I just want to watch ten minutes of stuff different shows too decide because then I've already wasted an hour.
That was a major reason we cancelled. Now we have Disney plus (I think someone else pays for that and shares with us - I don't watch anything on it on my own initiative so it's not my realm) and BBC, and the seven seas. Two legal services seems like a sensible amount.
Or how about trailers that actually give you some clue, instead of a snippet of a random conversation that has nothing to do with the plot.
best they can do is cancel the show after 1-2 season, rarely 3, and 4 if they are lucky.
I think it's all part of the same mindset: they want all conclusions to be drawn from watching the show. So they make shit shows that they shouldn't have started making (or rather: shit by their metrics, not viewers') and then can them when the experiment says doesn't meet their requirements.