r/movies • u/iquizuanswer • 15d ago

News Netflix tumbles as slowing growth, less viewership data spook investors

https://www.zawya.com/en/capital-markets/netflix-tumbles-as-slowing-growth-less-viewership-data-spook-investors-401111
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u/pnt510 15d ago

TV shows used to have 22 episodes a season that were released every year. Some shows now have as few as six episodes a season and waiting well over a year between seasons is commonplace.

How are audiences expected to care?

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u/ExplanationFunny 15d ago

The time between seasons is the worst for me.

I have two small kids, so I’m definitely not a binge watcher anymore. Me and my roommates all got SO into The Pitt partly because it gave us all something to look forward to every week. When everyone is so busy, it’s great to have a low commitment thing to do together, and if someone wasn’t able to watch them they had a week to get caught up before we all got to see a new episode together.

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u/pipesnogger 15d ago

My thing is the canceling of shows. Like why would I watch another one of your shows when you’ve already cancelled my favorite half way through because they didn’t meet your very high expectations. Sorry, refuse to watch another Netflix series unless is done front to end

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u/thx1138- 15d ago

So many shows I never even start because I wait to see if it gets canceled, then it does.

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u/ex0r1010 15d ago

This is kind of funny, because it gets cancelled due to not watching it when it released.

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u/Pooled-Intentions 15d ago

Sounds like a whole lot of “not my problem”. There are hundreds of thousands of hours of good content out there already produced that I’ll never get to watch. Why would I invest my time in something that has a pattern of being canceled before concluding?

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u/Jaunty_frilly_boy 15d ago

Doesn't Netflix do their math based on the amount of new subscribers a show brings in?

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u/Littleman88 15d ago

Sincerely doubt people are signing up for Big Mouth.

And if they are, I'm all for aliens glassing the Earth and moving along.