{"id":85836,"date":"2024-10-14T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/netflix-cancels-unstable-continuing-long-streak-of-axing-beloved-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:32:54","slug":"netflix-cancels-unstable-continuing-long-streak-of-axing-beloved-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/netflix-cancels-unstable-continuing-long-streak-of-axing-beloved-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Cancels Unstable, Continuing Long Streak of Axing Beloved Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Another one bites the dust at Netflix!<\/p>\n

The streaming giant announced today that the Rob Lowe sitcom Unstable<\/a> has been canceled after two seasons.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a tough year for Lowe, whose 9-1-1: Lone Star recently received the ax<\/a> from Fox.<\/p>\n

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But when all is said and done, Rob Lowe still leads a pretty enviable life. So the real losers in this situation are, as always, the folks who continue to shell out for increasingly pricey Netflix subscriptions.<\/p>\n

The situation has us feeling a bit like Charlie Brown. In this analogy, Netflix<\/a> is Lucy, and exciting new content is the football that\u2019s cruelly pulled away each time we make our eager approach.<\/p>\n

At this point, it feels like every longtime Netflix subscriber has a horror story about getting hooked on a show just to see it unceremoniously axed after one or two seasons.<\/p>\n

News of Unstable\u2019s cancelation comes on the heels of the announcement that beloved Jeff Goldblum comedy Kaos has been canned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, removing shows from the lineup for budgetary reasons is a practice that\u2019s as old as television itself.<\/p>\n

And some of those shows are bound to leave a crowd of disappointed fans in their wake.<\/p>\n

But Netflix\u2019s cancel-happy ways<\/a> have become an industry-wide punchline. And frustrated subscribers are increasingly fed up.<\/p>\n

The list of highly regarded shows that have been kicked to the curb by Reed Hastings and company is too long to reproduce here.<\/p>\n

Some of the cancellations that prompted the biggest uproar were The OA, Sense8, Tuca and Bertie, Glow, Everything Sucks!, and, of course, Mindhunter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David Fincher\u2019s acclaimed serial killer drama had a five-season plan that was scrapped amid budgetary concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we didn\u2019t attract enough of an audience to justify such an investment,\u201d Fincher told Le Journal du Dimanche<\/a> at the time. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough to imagine another \u201cprestige\u201d outlet \u2014 like, say, HBO<\/a> \u2014 abruptly cutting ties with a top-tier talent like Fincher and a buzzy show like Mindhunter under any circumstances.<\/p>\n

But at Netflix, that sort of brutally callous decision has become par for the course.<\/p>\n

The strategy makes sense, of course. As a publicly traded company, Netflix has a responsibility to its shareholders, and stagnation amounts to a slow death in today\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

One has to wonder, however, if execs\u2019 obvious lack of concern for the subscribers\u2019 experience will eventually begin to effect their bottom line.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt this point, I mostly hear about Netflix shows via their cancelation,\u201d wrote one Reddit user in response to the Unstable announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey make way too many shows to effectively market them, and then instantly kill them off if they don\u2019t become a viral hit by happenstance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments were echoed by countless others, many of whom noted that Netflix seems to take a rather half-hearted approach to promoting its shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen plenty about Shogun<\/a>, Agatha All Along, The Penguin<\/a>, Dune, whatever. For Netflix shows I only hear when they go viral or get canceled, never any real marketing,\u201d wrote one commenter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never see ads for any Netflix shows ever anymore,\u201d another chimed in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time I opened Netflix but there\u2019s nothing out there telling me I should be going onto Netflix to watch their latest thing. I couldn\u2019t even guess what is trending on there now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The situation has led many subscribers to wonder why Netflix doesn\u2019t simply switch its focus to limited series and original movies.<\/p>\n

The answer, of course, is that one-off projects with definitive endings are kryptonite to a subscription-based streaming service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Audiences are too likely to subscribe for a single month (often on a free trial basis) and then cancel once they\u2019ve watched the content they were interested in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the major drawbacks of the streaming age, and one reason that so many services are now supplementing their revenue with advertising.<\/p>\n

So to add insult to injury, you may now be forced to shell out a subscription fee and sit through ads on a service that will cancel your favorite show if it\u2019s not an immediate viral sensation.<\/p>\n

Hey, we\u2019re not claiming to know what the answer is here, but the current situation feels increasingly unsustainable.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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