I swear, it’s like someone gave The Cannon Group a streaming service.
In fact, they might be better off doing more one-shot films featuring ninjas than expensive series like this.
And yet people still pay for the shit. Because… social peer pressure? Addiction?
All I read is how people can’t afford shit, streaming is expensive, the content sucks, I can’t steal passwords anymore; yet people keep paying for this shit and their subscribership keeps increasing.
People need to vote with their wallets.
People still pay for it because canceling an account apparently isn’t cancelling an account…
I dropped Netflix years ago, cancelled the account like I can’t even log in, it says account doesn’t exist, and yet up until I noticed it a few months ago they were still taking money from my PayPal…
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.
I hope they didn’t use that image in any of the marketing. It just looks like geriatric super heroes. Why would I want to watch that?
I find it funny how both Netflix and Amazon are just so good at burning money on mediocre shite nowadays. Amazon’s studio output has always been throwing obscene money at any pitch or stupid idea, but once upon a time when Netflix promoted their own shows, you just knew they were going to be worth watching.
It’d be fine, if both companies hadn’t ruined their products and laid off hundreds, if not thousands of people.
Netflix still CAN make good shows, usually they’re from Spain or south Corea though
This is probably the most American comment I’ve ever seen on Lemmy (so far)
My car got towed when I went to the doctor (I’m too overweight to walk very far) and my medical bill was huge, so now I am bankrupt. At least I can sell my gun range that’s also a bar for cash. If I don’t fix my financial situation now, my kids will never be able to afford college, forever dooming my descendents to a life of burger flipping and penury.
Technically, it isn’t burning any money, it’s all a tax write-off and they don’t necessarily have any profit to report to the IRS. The US Film Industry has always been like that: employ all your friends, keep the money flowing, buy nice houses for the shareholders and producers, then pull the rug on anybody who worked for “percent of net profit/earnings.” Hollywood accounting, they call it.
A lot less funny with all the context.
