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Netflix Shows Are Suffering Because It Takes Too Long For Them To Return
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This is only tangentially related, but it touches on why I barely trust new shows anymore.
I kept hearing praise for a show called Severance (not on Netflix, though) and it sounded like it was something I'd like. Still I resisted the urge to watch it. It wasn't until several fucking years later, they released a second season.
So, after the second season came out, I figured I'd give it a go. The firs season left me irritated because the season finale resolved almost nothing, left everything open. I'm pissed just knowing how betrayed I'd have felt if I had watched the show when the first season came out and then just got left hanging for years.
Then I watched the first episode of the second season, which fortunately provided some answers, and decided, fuck everybody involved with this project. I'm not getting invested because the potential for them to do another non-answer cliffhanger and just leave fans/viewers without any type of closure is just too much.
But back on topic, yes, I agree, Netflix quite often takes too long to release follow-up seasons on a lot of shows I watched and liked. I know some of it is outside of their control, but it seems to happen quite a bit to the point where I do wonder how much of it is actually out of their control.
Severance is very much safe from cancellation if that's what you're basing it on. It's hugely successful.
It's not safe from The Walking Deadification, though. And I'm sad to say, it seems like it's already happening.
There's no way Severance goes on for 11 seasons.
Laughs in LOST
The days of shows like that being 20 episodes a season are long gone.
LOST os a wild one for me because i never watched it growing up. Everything i know about it was just from watching commercials during shows i actually liked, and i very quickly had no fucking clue what was going on with that. 10 years later i had the exact aame experience whenever my much younger brother would watch Arrow. Absolute nonsense TV shows that started with a good premise before immediately spiraling out of control.
Lost is amazing, easily one of my top probably 10 favorite shows
I have never had the motivation to actually start it knowing that the writers were just winging the overarching plot and it ultimately ends up nowhere remotely satisfying. Like yes I'm sure that episode to episode the story flows and the mysteries are interesting and the characters play off each other well. But it really sounds like a TTRPG DM who refuses to plan his campaign ahead and is just worldbuilding on the fly and throwing out puzzles and mysteries that even he doesn't have the solution or understanding of. Sure that can be fun as hell while you're in it trusting that the DM is building toward something. But then when those loose threads run out and you realize that they never had anything on the other end at all. That almost ruins the entire experience, even the good stuff. I've invested years into multiple novel series that ended up being like that, series I absolutely loved and reread multiple times for fun as the books were still coming out, and now I can't even pick them back up due to the taint of the endings.
I hope so but they're already abusing cliffhangers so they're not that far off from just completely stalling the narrative on every chapter except the last one.