Netflix Originals are mostly bad - Is it just me?

Are all of them bad?


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With the recent talk about Netflix starting to lose popularity, I keep seeing a big reason for people unsubscribing as "Netflix keeps canceling the good shows after one or two seasons". Yes, Netflix cancels a lot of stuff but most of it is crap anyways. Scrolling through the List of Ended Netflix shows on Wikipedia, there are hardly any shows on there that I miss. Even some good stuff like Daredevil or Mindhunter were cancelled because of other reasons. Daredevil was cancelled cause Disney was launching it's own service and wanted to dissolve Marvel Television and Mindhunter was cancelled (or put on hiatus, idk) cause Fincher wanted to work on other stuff.

The only show that I think was cancelled too soon by Netflix was Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and if what Netflix says is true about it not being watched a lot, then I understand from a business point of view. Most of the talk of Netflix cancels popular shows seems to either just come from normies who watch every crappy show, or people who don't understand some shows weren't cancelled because of Netflix's decisions. In fact, I think Netflix renews too many shows far past when they should end like 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things, and Tiger King.

Obviously Netflix has been forced to make changes since they can't use shows like The Office, and Friends to draw in viewers anymore; meaning they have to keep making original shows to fill out a sizable catalogue. But they need to say no to more pitches, cause so much crap gets put on their giving Netflix originals a bad reputation.

They likely aren't to change though, so my hope is they fall under and their demise is used as a warning to the other streaming services (and other media). Problem is, most other services are back by big corps who can afford to keep pumping in money, no matter how much crap they put on there.

My prediction: If Netflix goes under, I expect them to maybe be bought by Amazon or Apple, who will merge their current service with Netflix and keep the Netflix name cause of brand recognition. Paramount+ and Peacock will probably go away, as well as Apple TV, if they don't manage to buy Netflix. Disney+ and HBO Max will stay around because of their backlog and financial stability.
 
With the recent talk about Netflix starting to lose popularity, I keep seeing a big reason for people unsubscribing as "Netflix keeps canceling the good shows after one or two seasons". Yes, Netflix cancels a lot of stuff but most of it is crap anyways. Scrolling through the List of Ended Netflix shows on Wikipedia, there are hardly any shows on there that I miss. Even some good stuff like Daredevil or Mindhunter were cancelled because of other reasons. Daredevil was cancelled cause Disney was launching it's own service and wanted to dissolve Marvel Television and Mindhunter was cancelled (or put on hiatus, idk) cause Fincher wanted to work on other stuff.

The only show that I think was cancelled too soon by Netflix was Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and if what Netflix says is true about it not being watched a lot, then I understand from a business point of view. Most of the talk of Netflix cancels popular shows seems to either just come from normies who watch every crappy show, or people who don't understand some shows weren't cancelled because of Netflix's decisions. In fact, I think Netflix renews too many shows far past when they should end like 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things, and Tiger King.

Obviously Netflix has been forced to make changes since they can't use shows like The Office, and Friends to draw in viewers anymore; meaning they have to keep making original shows to fill out a sizable catalogue. But they need to say no to more pitches, cause so much crap gets put on their giving Netflix originals a bad reputation.

They likely aren't to change though, so my hope is they fall under and their demise is used as a warning to the other streaming services (and other media). Problem is, most other services are back by big corps who can afford to keep pumping in money, no matter how much crap they put on there.

My prediction: If Netflix goes under, I expect them to maybe be bought by Amazon or Apple, who will merge their current service with Netflix and keep the Netflix name cause of brand recognition. Paramount+ and Peacock will probably go away, as well as Apple TV, if they don't manage to buy Netflix. Disney+ and HBO Max will stay around because of their backlog and financial stability.
Santa Clarita Diet was definitely canceled a season too soon, and that was totally Netflix’s fault.

The issue they have is they’d rather shotgun 10 new shows than give a second season to anything. While this used to be a profitable play, now that they’re running out of new subscribers to attract onto their service, it’s starting to be their undoing.

Not so much “they’re canceling the good shows after a season or two” as it’s instead “They’re canceling EVERYTHING after a season or two, don’t get attached to any new thing they make, it won’t last too long.”
 
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They cancel everything after Season 2, except Stranger Things which really should have ended after Season 2.

These kids looking gnarly as fuck in all the pictures I've seen. God Damn
That's what happens when you over wait on a show just so you make a bunch of hype. All your child actors grow up as shit. You can't even blame covid on why the show has taken so long.


But that said I really hope Locke and Key gets a third season. I really love that show. Jupiter's Legacy only lasted one season.
 
Russian Doll season 2 fucking sucked balls.
Captain Midnight made a good point that a ton of Netflix shows just blow their load too early. Shows like Succession, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, etc. get good and get several seasons because they allow for more exploration and character study in subsequent season. Many Netflix shows just feel like they’re just trying to do stuff to pad the runtime instead of do something interesting.

There’s the wholeness and lack of quality too, but this is another aspect. For every one success, there are 15-20 duds (Hoops comes to mind).
 
The online consensus seems to be that Netflix cancels pretty much everything too early. What's interesting is, it doesn't matter if that's not even true, it's sold the idea there's no point in getting invested in their programming.

With most of their library splintered off into new services like Disney plus, they need their own shows to work. It seems like they have an image to fix first.
 
They cancel everything after Season 2, except Stranger Things which really should have ended after Season 2.

These kids looking gnarly as fuck in all the pictures I've seen. God Damn
Oh come on now, everyone wants to watch kids who used to be cute become gangly, awkward, unlovable teenagers. And it's not like we instinctively know that almost all of those kids will be working "Stranger Things" conventions in 5-6 years with a forlorn look on their face as they're signing autographs.
 
Oh come on now, everyone wants to watch kids who used to be cute become gangly, awkward, unlovable teenagers. And it's not like we instinctively know that almost all of those kids will be working "Stranger Things" conventions in 5-6 years with a forlorn look on their face as they're signing autographs.
All while the creepy weird looking kid in the background blossoms into an unlikely heartthrob of course (look at Neville Longbottom and Robyn Arryn)
 
Santa Clarita Diet was definitely canceled a season too soon, and that was totally Netflix’s fault.

The issue they have is they’d rather shotgun 10 new shows than give a second season to anything. While this used to be a profitable play, now that they’re running out of new subscribers to attract onto their service, it’s starting to be their undoing.

Not so much “they’re canceling the good shows after a season or two” as it’s instead “They’re canceling EVERYTHING after a season or two, don’t get attached to any new thing they make, it won’t last too long.”
I will never *not* be bitter about Santa Clarity Diet ending when it did.
 
Oh come on now, everyone wants to watch kids who used to be cute become gangly, awkward, unlovable teenagers. And it's not like we instinctively know that almost all of those kids will be working "Stranger Things" conventions in 5-6 years with a forlorn look on their face as they're signing autographs.
Which one of the Stranger Things kids becomes the new Jake Loyd?
 
The Jimmy Saville thing was good enough. It does show the 'bongs in a bad light that their greatest idol was a pervert who made no attempt to hide his creepiness and groped girls on camera on Top of the Pops, and who was pals with other pervs like Gary Glitter who similarly barely hit their sick nature.
 
I think the only thing Netflix didn't cancel that they should have was Arrested Development.
House of Cards definitely got dragged out two seasons longer than it should have. Which ended up fucking them over when Spacey got #MeToo'd during the filming of the final season.
 
Netflix blew money away in the early years after they got lucky with House of Cards and Orange in New Black. Marco Polo, Hemlock Grove and lots of other terrible projects got greenlit. They had no quality control. 100 million for a TV show with a wooden lead.

Then suddenly money got tight so they cut costs and ended lots of good shows after 3 seasons. Santa Clarita Diet, GLOW and lots of great shows shitcanned early. Why ? So they can do new bigger shows like Jupiter Ascending and Cowboy Bebop that completely fuck the pooch.

Stranger Things can only bail them out for so long. That will be ending soon.

HBO has quality control engraved since the 90s. Amazon and Apple have obscene money and top quality.
Netflix has wasted potential.
 
The only one I enjoyed was Dirk Gently and even then I'm pretty sure the BBC produced it with Netflix. Of course it was cancelled after a good second season, probably needed to use the money for another fat Jewish stand up who's dad owns shares.

Documentary wise, lots of complete shit. Tiger King and the Fyre Festival one were enjoyable though.
 
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