Netflix has just cancelled Santa Clarita Diet, this article goes some way towards explaining why
‘Feeling The Churn: Why Netflix Cancels Shows After A Couple Of Seasons & Why They Can’t Move To New Homes”
Honestly they’re just shooting themselves in the foot because I was planning on checking Santa Clarita Diet out after season 3 seemed to get really great reviews, and I heard people on my flist were really enjoying it, but hearing that it has been cancelled on a cliffhanger has just put me off even starting it. And their originals are going to be on their platform forever, so those are the shows that they should be spending and investing on to make sure that they get good conclusions, not paying out millions to temporarily keep Friends for another year. I get that Friends is doing really well for them right now, but surely they should be thinking more about looking after their own shows for the long-term?
The importance of viewer loyalty should not be underestimated, people are going to be put off even starting a new Netflix show if they know that it’s likely to be cancelled out of the blue like this. If Netflix wants to keep shows down to three seasons or less then I suppose that I have no strong objections to that, just as long as they tell the creative people involved that this is going to be your final season, we want to give you a chance to wrap it up. Don’t just leave the story half finished ffs!
I can’t help feeling like they’re shooting themselves in the foot as well though to keep chasing the hot new show all the time, it’s clearly been shown that the most popular shows on Netflix are the long-running comedies like Friends and The Office that viewers are nostalgic for and heavily invested in, for me personally I prefer tv over movies partly because of the depth of character development you get when a show is long-lasting and you really feel like you get to know the characters lives, and yet Netflix seems to have no interest in creating shows to run over the course of years (well other than The Crown I guess). It seems like they’re they’re so heavily invested in binge-watching that they almost treat tv more like movies, that they want to just churn out a couple of ten episode seasons to watch in a weekend as the equivalent of a really long movie?
Honestly they’re just shooting themselves in the foot because I was planning on checking Santa Clarita Diet out after season 3 seemed to get really great reviews, and I heard people on my flist were really enjoying it, but hearing that it has been cancelled on a cliffhanger has just put me off even starting it. And their originals are going to be on their platform forever, so those are the shows that they should be spending and investing on to make sure that they get good conclusions, not paying out millions to temporarily keep Friends for another year. I get that Friends is doing really well for them right now, but surely they should be thinking more about looking after their own shows for the long-term?
The importance of viewer loyalty should not be underestimated, people are going to be put off even starting a new Netflix show if they know that it’s likely to be cancelled out of the blue like this. If Netflix wants to keep shows down to three seasons or less then I suppose that I have no strong objections to that, just as long as they tell the creative people involved that this is going to be your final season, we want to give you a chance to wrap it up. Don’t just leave the story half finished ffs!
I can’t help feeling like they’re shooting themselves in the foot as well though to keep chasing the hot new show all the time, it’s clearly been shown that the most popular shows on Netflix are the long-running comedies like Friends and The Office that viewers are nostalgic for and heavily invested in, for me personally I prefer tv over movies partly because of the depth of character development you get when a show is long-lasting and you really feel like you get to know the characters lives, and yet Netflix seems to have no interest in creating shows to run over the course of years (well other than The Crown I guess). It seems like they’re they’re so heavily invested in binge-watching that they almost treat tv more like movies, that they want to just churn out a couple of ten episode seasons to watch in a weekend as the equivalent of a really long movie?