Tax loss write-off?
Production of any show is a “write off”. You can write off any business related costs. Cancelling a show doesn’t change that.
Cancelling does stop the current spending on that show, and promote other shows above it. That’s the only savings they get. Spending $200 million and cancelling a show after a month is a boneheaded chain of decisions.
I’m pretty sure it’s for tax deductions as it’s a loss if they cancel it. The cost to host the show would be completely negotiable as people would just watch something else.
It’s not an extra write off just because it doesn’t make money. The tax effect is the same as a successful show.
Marketing for Hollywood shows and movies is normally a huge fraction of the budget. If they spend $200m to make the show and realize it’s shit, if they cancel the marketing budget the loss might be smaller than if they spend $150m to market the shit out of it and it flops like they expected.
What sucks is when they remove it from their own streaming services. I can’t see how that helps anyone. It costs next to nothing to add it to the catalogue and make it available to anybody who happens to find it. That way all the hard work of the actors, directors, gaffers, best boys, and everyone else involved isn’t just thrown away.
Maybe that’s why they are on this kick of annual price increases, under the guise of “rising costs” due to “inflation”.
That show sucked ass. I got through the first episode. I’m sure it worked better as a comic book. The villain was like, killing the superheroes left and right and then one of the heroes finally killed the villain (who had escaped prison or something) and then the papa hero got all pissy because “We don’t kill!” Just really stupid stuff
Yeah I watched the first episode and thought this is stupid, badly acted, and treading old ideas. Super hero’s aren’t my favorite genre but there is a fair amount of content in the genre I like. This one was just bad. Also when i saw the costumes they were so bad I expected a pullback shot showing this was a movie set within the show.
Googled just to see, it’s a Mark Millar comic didn’t need to read any further, it was an edgy take at superheroes, how rare from him
I stongly feel there should be a rule for streaming platforms to make a satisfying season finale every time, because of the extremely high risk of cancellation every time they make something.
Should be a contractual obligation that if a show is optioned for additional seasons and Netflix cancels it, there are at the very least on the hook for a movie to tie up any outstanding plot points.
Not only to give the fans of the show closure, but potential new audience the confidence that the content available on their platform will likely have a satisfying narrative arc.
The anime was better tbh
I made it through 1.5 episodes.
Damn. I made it through the season. It wasn’t awful but this is just another in a line of good shit Netflix murders early.
Altered Carbon, Dark Matter, Another Life, Travellers, I’d keep a list if the scars weren’t etched into my fucking heart the rat bastards.
Another Life was hot garbage, Altered Carbon Season 2 was a huge let down. Sorry for you specifically, but I can’t really fault Netflix for cancelling that rubble.
Same taste. We carry the same elephant graveyard on our backs comrade lol
