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Netflix has just cancelled Santa Clarita Diet, this article goes some way towards explaining why

Apr 27, 2019 12:46

‘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 ( Read more... )

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violateraindrop April 27 2019, 12:59:16 UTC

I saw that article earlier. It sounds as if it's bad when a show is successful. Eventually, people will get fed up and realize that their original shows never get proper conclusions.

Santa Clarita Diet was great and it's a shame that it ended on a big cliffhanger. If they would have known about it, I'm sure they could have come up with a much more satisfying ending.

Does Netflix realize that Game of Thrones has more than three seasons and pretty much dominates the internet at the moment (coming from someone who doesn't watch GoT)? They picked up Lucifer after the third season...
I wonder if their big hit Stranger Things will also end after S3.

frelling_tralk April 27 2019, 13:54:18 UTC

That’s what I don’t get, the really big shows in pop culture are not the ones that ended after a couple of seasons, Breaking Bad actually picked up more and more viewers through word of mouth as it ran for a total of five seasons on Netflix, and yet it’s been noticed more and more lately that Netflix seem to now consider three seasons the ideal length for even a show that is still reasonably popular.

They seem to be setting up their entire platform for just binge-watching the new shows, and disregarding anything that is considered ‘old’, even though it’s been pointed out that their most popular shows are easily the network ones that ran for six seasons or more

violateraindrop April 27 2019, 16:00:21 UTC

Like you said, their most popular shows are old ones. They don't even give (new) shows a chance to become classics or gain viewers by word of mouth. You are probably not the only one who decided against watching Santa Clarita Diet. A lot of people won't start shows when they know there will be a cliffhanger and the show is already canceled.

I don't really think they consider three seasons the ideal length. To me it seems as if they just want to new promote shows, generate buzz, everyone binge-watches the first season, is excited for the second one, and then the hype dies down.

frelling_tralk April 27 2019, 16:13:30 UTC

And that’s really ridiculous thinking of theirs in my mind, because of course a shows hype will die down with the way that they release shows all at once. I’m not saying that I want them to change the way that they release entire seasons at once, but it’s frustrating that they’re judging a shows popularity by it when as a strategy it clearly favours new shows where viewers can get hyped over hearing about this cool new show, and are able to check it out as a complete season. It’s hard to keep up the same hype though once you’re into a pattern of a new season being dumped on Netflix in a weekend every 1-2 years. Even Stranger Things doesn’t seem to have nearly as much hype behind it coming into the third season, and so I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to drop that as well now that it’s no longer the hot new thing in comparison to newer shows like Sabrina

violateraindrop April 27 2019, 17:49:16 UTC

Maybe they should change their strategy a little. Sabrina did have two seasons (half seasons?) with a shorter break, they should consider that with other shows.

I do think that their strategy relies on people getting an account for a specific new show and then just never canceling it, consuming any stuff that Netflix throws at them. Again, one day everyone will realize how there are no satisfying endings and will cancel after all.

With the Marvel shows, the MCU movies probably helped a lot to keep them going. Not that it helped in the long run.

frelling_tralk April 27 2019, 18:09:49 UTC

That’s true, it did make good sense how they handled Sabrina when they first followed it up with a Xmas special, and then had the second half of the season released less than half a year later. In general though that’s been pretty much a one-off so far, and I wonder if it had more episodes only because it was initially developed as a CW show with presumedly 20 episodes, and so Netflix then found it easier to split the season into two parts? Because certainly other original shows of theirs aimed at the younger demo like Sex Education and Elite are not following that same pattern, but are just releasing a total of six-eight episodes every year at the most, so it’s no wonder that they can’t compete with CW shows like Gossip Girl in terms of which are ultimately the most popular on their platform ( ... )

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