Netflix has a reputation for cancelling good shows. This leads to a negative feedback loop where people don't want to pick up a new Netflix show with the assumption it'll never be finished, then Netflix complains about low viewership and cancels it.

The real solution is to just cancel Netflix entirely.

Obviously if it's a bad show, kill it, but also consider that sometimes a show needs time to grow.

Look at season 1 of Parks and Rec, it was rough. Or The Office, it was fine but didn't find it's own until season 2.

You also have to consider that a show might need a little time to build an audience. I don't currently subscribe to Netflix, but I have in the past. I may subscribe again soon, I like Jeff Goldbloom, but now I know his show is cancelled, I guess I'll wait to subscribe.

I know they're hoping for one big show to get me to subscribe, but maybe a steady stream of shows would work just as well.

So this is basically about KAOS, the Greek gods show that was canned a few weeks after it premiered because people weren't watching it enough I guess.

You might say it seems a bit early to can a show when people haven't gotten around to it yet. Lots of people rotate between streaming services, rather than maintaining each subscription year-in and year-out.

I think this might be the problem though. Netflix don't like us only paying them 1/3 of the time or whatever. We're going to backlog their shows? Well then fuck us; we can't have nice things then.

No Netflix. Fuck you. Nothing you do is that important to me.

Audiences are not the problem. Don't blame the viewer.

I liked MCU. I was a really big fan. I consider Endgame as one of the best achievements in the history of cinema. But the abundance of series ruined it for me. Even before the movies started sucking, there were too many series.

Longer hiatuses haven't lived up to the quality of the previous season that first drew audiences in the first place. People also forget and hype dies down. Just seems like it's all about movie level production but subpar writing.

Kaos was actually really solid. Their mistake was putting it on Netflix.

There hasn't been anything worth watching any time I try watching. I'm not a kid any more, and I'm not my parents. I've actually read more than a few books. When I try watching anything main stream, it is just a mindless dump. I'm supposed to spend ages sifting through enough crap that I lower my standards to meet theirs. I see through that well enough to walk away before I start.

Well, not really...

Edit: the paying part. In case that was not clear. Yarr.

At this point Netflix should just go full steam ahead on making 50 episodes of Unsolved Mysteries per year.

I could watch those things at least every week (granted the latest 4 episode batch was kinda weak).

I am so far behind on series on Netflix & other streaming services, that I can watch the next 10 years only ones that made it to a reasonable amount of episodes and seasons and got a nice wrap up. I am not investing my time in new ones that might not make it. I learned my lesson with Firefly.