Netflix ramblings

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Netflix's Latest Numbers Show It Has One Demographic in MindI’ve definitely been starting to get the feeling lately that Netflix are becoming a more traditional network with chasing youth. Clearly they want the younger viewers who have more time on their hands to binge watch in a weekend and make something part of pop culture immediately, as

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Oh definitely, Sabrina is a show that isn’t mentioned in the article, but that was a case where they determinedly went after a show that was originally meant for the CW. And that is fine by me, just as long as they don’t then start expecting all of their new original shows to get the same immediate word of mouth and views/encourage showrunners to cater episode length for a weekend binge, because meh. I often take more time with shows and find it harder to watch everything in a single weekend (well for a start I work weekends lol), and I would not like to feel like that’s something that Netflix now expects of their shows before they view them as a hit.

I saw so many articles on how the Marvel shows were being talked about less on twitter and social media as they went on, and while of course there were many other factors going into those cancellations, I wonder if it would have made a difference if their later seasons were as talked about as their first, and seen as immediate massive hits. But obviously Daredevil in particular did have huge critical acclaim and a very positive response, we can see from the cancellation that a lot of people were watching (and many people are still on Twitter today saying that they’ve only just caught up with the third season, that they wanted to watch The Defenders and the other shows first), so I do worry if opening week figures are being seen as a bigger deal now when that’s something that we never used to have to worry about with Netflix

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Yeah, I don't know at what point they started weighting social media chatter more heavily than long term numbers? Like at the end of the day, does it matter that much if you're getting 100k views in the first week vs 100k views over a month? It seems like a really imbalanced metric to use, since it assumes that everyone's going to watch it straight away.

Daredevil is one of the weirder ones, for sure. Aside from the weird showdown with Marvel and Netflix, each Marvel show got less chatter as it went on, but that's the nature of a show, right? It's no longer a 'new' thing anymore, but a continuation of an old one, and you always have attrition in viewers as something goes on. The only time you maintain a steady behavior like that is if you drop new things all the time, but those are just one time wonders.

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I suspect it hurt Daredevil as well that Netflix released sooo many shows connected to Marvel, so maybe viewers just ended up feeling overwhelmed at whether they need to catch up with the three other shows as well, plus The Defenders, before they could get started on Daredevil season 3. I’ve seen a number of people ask how they should chronologically watch the shows, or if they need to watch The Defenders before catching up with Daredevil. Perhaps it would have benefited Daredevil more if it was treated as its own thing, a release of a new DD season could have been build up as more of a special yearly event then, as opposed to just the next new Marvel chapter. I mean it did work for the movieverse to all be connected, but I suppose that it’s different for tv when you’re talking about 13 episodes of 50 minutes or more, that’s a lot more content to keep up to date with

But clearly the outrage has shown that it does still have a massive fanbase, even if it hasn’t been as talked about as it was in the very beginning. Heck Netflix are just as much to blame there though for doing next to nothing to promote it, The Punisher seemed to get twice as much promo recently I noticed