Not surprising.
1 it's Netflix.
2 the 1st season was good, but the 2nd season almost felt like a soft reboot. Characters acted different from season 1 and the tone of the show kinda changed too.
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It was low tier okay, but that is mostly all Netflix shell out.
Never heard of it. Netflix is terrible at marketing their own stuff.
I see this response with some degree of frequency here on Lemmy (and Reddit before) when a movie/game bombs, or a show is cancelled, and I have to wonder how valid it is. Like, I would suspect that the population that uses Lemmy regularly and the population that takes steps to remove corporate advertising from their lives form an essentially circular Venn diagram.
At a certain point, easy though it is to blame marketers for not getting the word out, folks need to acknowledge the fact that, when advertisers come knocking at their door, they're turning off the porch light and closing the blinds.
Which is not to imply that people have anything approaching an obligation to open themselves up to advertising. I'm just saying that blaming a lack of ads while running an ad blocker seems disingenuous.
For the record, OP, not an attack on you or anything, just voicing some thoughts that have been percolating since reading about a couple high profile flops and cancellations this summer.
I think part of it is only being tuned into the services you have.
I have Hulu and there are a number of reoccurring or old shows on Hulu that I watch. As a result I'm usually aware of what Hulu is offering, even if it's only once a show returns.
I also have HBO, but I watch a lot less on HBO, so HBO only has a chance about once a week to get my attention.
I don't have Netflix, so I have no idea what's going on over there.
This actually burned me once since, while watching Doom Patrol on HBO, I was looking up information/news about the show and discovered that a spin-off type show called Dead Boy Detectives was coming out soon. What I didn't see is that it was moving to Netflix, and not HBO. Naturally I forgot about it and HBO never advertised it (not their show), so what did I see as a headline a few months ago? It had been cancelled.
I think as Netflix has gained a cancellation reputation, they're finding people are leaving and not coming back. I know they're trying to improve this, but it's going to take a lot of effort.
Their whole marketing is forcing you to see it front and foremost on their show listing.
I don't have Netflix, I have 0 idea what they have except squid game and whatever they canceled yesterday.
I canceled awhile ago. But Squid Game, Stranger Things, and Sandman all might get me to subscribe for a month. But it's been awhile since we've had anything new from those.
Stranger things is infuriating. Firstly in terms of content it is repetitive, but still good. IRL terms it is a joke how long we go between seasons. Think we will be like 10+ years with 4-5 seasons. Boring and shit how they let such massove franchises do nothing.
Same for Squid Game and Sandman is destined to be cancelled.
Yeah, Stranger Things got a pass for the Covid year. But they should have planned it better with how popular it was and with their ages. I'm glad this will be the final season, the kids are in their 20s and 30s.
Squid Game I'm kind of okay with. First season was great and self-contained. It didn't feel like it needed a second season. So as long as it's good I'll be happy, I'm not in a rush.
Sandman should have come out by now. And with Neil Gaiman's stuff, I'm wondering if they'll move forward.
I can’t believe it got a second season