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.
It’s kind of interesting you say this. When I go on my Netflix account, I see the same 20-30 things. Gets old and I can never find anything I want to watch. When I’m at my friends and open her Netflix, it’s like a completely different service. I see a ton of things that look interesting that I’ve never seen on my own account. It’s quite strange.
Absolutely, all of this. I cancelled Netflix, in part because it had become impossible to navigate, it’s a junk box. You could be scrolling for hours looking for something inspiring you to watch it, nothing. Everything they make is bland, basic and sanitised, like what Disney did to family movies, it’s torture to watch, so unengaging. (Plus all the evil, and price rises, so it was easy to leave).
No, and he’s not the only one. So much shit can happen in a season of a show and then you get season 2 over a year later when you’ve watched like 10-20 other shows and you can’t remember side characters, side plots, or even finales.
As they said, many times the recaps leave a lot of stuff out that would actually be beneficial to a user. I wish I could recount an example, but I notice it as I watch the recap and sometimes it triggers a memory. I have these discussions with my wife who doesn’t remember what I do and vice versa.
Edit: I recently experienced this with both Vox Machina and Invincible.
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.
It’s kind of interesting you say this. When I go on my Netflix account, I see the same 20-30 things. Gets old and I can never find anything I want to watch. When I’m at my friends and open her Netflix, it’s like a completely different service. I see a ton of things that look interesting that I’ve never seen on my own account. It’s quite strange.
Absolutely, all of this. I cancelled Netflix, in part because it had become impossible to navigate, it’s a junk box. You could be scrolling for hours looking for something inspiring you to watch it, nothing. Everything they make is bland, basic and sanitised, like what Disney did to family movies, it’s torture to watch, so unengaging. (Plus all the evil, and price rises, so it was easy to leave).
You can’t remember what you watched?
No, and he’s not the only one. So much shit can happen in a season of a show and then you get season 2 over a year later when you’ve watched like 10-20 other shows and you can’t remember side characters, side plots, or even finales.
As they said, many times the recaps leave a lot of stuff out that would actually be beneficial to a user. I wish I could recount an example, but I notice it as I watch the recap and sometimes it triggers a memory. I have these discussions with my wife who doesn’t remember what I do and vice versa.
Edit: I recently experienced this with both Vox Machina and Invincible.