The biggest issue is they take years between seasons. People lose interest.

The first two shows they mention coming out with a season 2 recently had their season 1 release in 2023!

Probably because Netflix has a habit of often cancelling shows after a season or two. Why should viewers get invested in a shot if there's a good chance they will be cancelled?

Also, too many Netflix shows are pretty shit these days.

...I'm not really sure why they care. In 99% of cases, there's only one extra season to watch anyway because Netflix cancelled the fucking show.

Yes, I'm still salty about Santa Clarita Diet, why do you ask?

company known for cancelling shows after 1 season is surprised to discover their viewers are dropping shows after 1 season

Our family's policy is that we don't start a Netflix show until it has run its course and is over. We've had too many disappointments watching a show we like, only to have it get abruptly cancelled. There are too many other things to watch that won't pull the rug out from under us.

I'm sure Netflix hates this, but it's their own fault. We are only responding to their irresponsible programming nonsense.

Netflix couldn’t even finish Altered Carbon respectfully. Got a season 2 and some poor anime to finish it off.

Can’t trust em with any series really.

Why should viewers be interested, when Netflix treats its shows like draft ideas that more often than not get scrapped after one season?

Maybe because netflix cancels show a week after season 1 drops?

People got burnt too many times, best case scenario it's a huge hit and in 3 years we get a 8 hour season 2.

Why would viewers get invested?

Netflix started it.

Bring back Kaos then you fucks

My experience with Netflix shows tends to go like this: I hear about a new show from people at work (or maybe here). I watch and enjoy season 1. I never hear about the show again until someone mentions that there sad it was cancelled after additional seasons I never heard about.

Personally, I find it hard to watch things when I don't know they exist.

That's usually all they make

Netflix, where the medium of storytelling goes to die.

It's a two step process I think:

1, find a show you like on Netflix

2, head to the high seas where the commercials don't exist

Shows are lucky to last even one season on Netfucks, let alone two. Inside Job should NOT have been cancelled.

Avatar has been pretty much a let down just like cowboy bebop. I really wanted it to be good, but they did this really strange with changing the characters personalities and corrupting the flow of the story.

One piece has been good so far but I got the impression it might be pulling back on the main character.

Edit just finished episode 2 of season 2 of the live action avatar. That was much better than I expected. My hope has been restored.

They had a good run for a few years but id say in the last 5 years or longer...for seasons with several after about S3 they start to get sillier to the point of unbelievable. Id say now it has even started to happen around S2 recently.

Secondly a lot of stuff is very...the samey and TBH boring, if something is good they try to repeat it over and over. Generally now i see the N sighn and i am like nah, its likely to be average.

I would argue most tv show now only need to be 1 season long but they either pad them out so much it's insufferable OR create needless drama that i do not care about to keep the show going

Netflix's slop has got so bad. I scrolled and scrolled yesterday across the platforms before checking them and realised they are so far down my list I might cancel them. When I did get there they had nothing of interest across the whole of what the oresent on their front page.

Most story lines need to end in a single season.

Also, they get new customers by advertising the hottest new show, not the seventh seasonest show.

Make a good second season then?

I can't view the article, so I have a perfectly valid excuse for living my life like a Redditor -- making a comment based on the headline only.

I don't know if I'm one of those netflix viewers who has abandoned shows after one season. I'm not even sure how I could know. Netflix is by far the worst of the major streaming platforms in terms of obscuring their library. Their user experience choices are so heavily focused on making sure everybody's watching the same 20 or 30 movies/shows that they tune literally everything else out. I'm not on Netflix 24/7 and I don't tend to keep up with showbiz news. I know lots of people rotate streaming services. It's very easy to see why folks would not be aware of additional seasons of a show being out.

The other issues that stifle my interest in shows applies to other services as well. The modern era's long-ass gaps between seasons kills the inertia. Sure, I liked the season that came out 2 years ago, but I hardly remember it and I just don't have time to try and go back to catch up. Of course there are recaps, but those by nature leave stuff out. Most likely unless that first season was really damn good, I just won't bother.

Even so, it seems like a lot of these shows peak in their first season, lose the plot in the second, and then by the fourth or fifth season you're essentially watching a headless male mantis clinging to life just long enough to finish the job. So, a lot of times if the first season isn't absolutely stellar, I end up putting the show on my abyss of a watch list, likely never to return.

The time between seasons is sometimes way too long, people move on eventually.

i think that is normal? a season is supposed to be a good enough set of stories/episodes.

is there supposed to be more to expect?

I would love for more one and done seasons. Wrap it all up. What’s annoying to me is you get 3 seasons into something and they run out of ideas.

Season 1, 8 Episodes of "mid quality but has potential and I'm invested". After this, there are 3 possibilities:

• Show gets cancelled before season 2 because people weren't interested enough
• Show gets cancelled after season 2 because people weren't interested enough (2 years later)
• It's Stranger Things

I don't have netflix but, I sometimes will use my parents or grandparents account if i'm visiting their house.

I never got into netflix series mostly due to what has been said here already. There's no point of investment into a series with a company that has an ongoing reputation of cancelling shows even if they go well, and the ones that do get another season can have multi-year delays between it.

It's the same issue that a lot of the lesser known Anime's have, They get greenlit for 1 or 2 seasons, and by the time they get greenlit for s3 all momentum for people wanting to watch it is dead.

To me I would rather just wait and invest my time into something that is actually going to go somewhere, not get pitfalled into a cliffhanger and then never know what happens.