Members dragonflies Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 Even in these models...viewership still counts I guess. I watched it and thought it was funny. I think we are seeing people want escapism again from real life. Or they want something more melancholy than what one a day at a time offered. Shows balancing the escapism and real life like odaat suffer. Still..I'd rather the show go out in top notch quality over continuing with their quality diminishing..like the original version did...and other Netflix shows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 I'm also more than a little annoyed that they knew this could be the last season and did so little with Penelope's character. She was treading water and only toward the very end of the season did she get more of a chance to shine. Such a waste of Justina Machado's talent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 I think (like a lot of platforms) Netflix is caught between making quality television (and I think they do make some of that, in addition to making some schlock) and having to learn how to function like a real business in what is still a fairly new landscape, which they pioneered. That leads to a lot of schizophrenic and often backwards behavior, claiming to want one thing while doing another and trying to suddenly make hard-nosed decisions like a major network while claiming they're not like the networks. Well, they are and they aren't and they need to figure that out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 I haven’t watched that yet, but thanks for the warning, @DRW50. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 More in the vein of what I said above: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 SaveODAAT is the #1 World Wide Trend on twitter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Juliajms Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 Wasn't it 100 million? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted March 14, 2019 Author Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) I'm so sad. What a great show. I have doubts it gets picked up anywhere but I really hope it does. Netflix can soooo afford to do this show. Lawd. They're terrible. Edited March 14, 2019 by KMan101 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 I agree with so many of the tweets Vee cited. Netflix can't continue pretending they are everyone's best buddy and then make decisions like this. The way they are burning through cash there is no way this was more than a drop in the bucket to them anyway. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/investing/netflix-cash-burn-stock/index.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) This is part of what I wanted to mention when I cited a gripe with Netflix's new business model (in the Awards Show thread). They have now become so committed to drawing in the big-time film directors and the big budget projects that they are leaving behind the independent and indie-adjacent fare that used to be their stock and trade, including a lot of shows by minority creatives. It's a shame, really. It's no coincidence that they've canceled so many shows with minority majority cast (e.g.The Get Down, Sense8, Everything Sucks). I've never seen 13 Reasons Why or Insatiable but I take it that they've been renewed and people are objecting to it? Something seems fishy about this. Edited March 14, 2019 by DramatistDreamer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) Sure does. And if you know about the history of the FOX, WB and UPN networks, for example, then you know that b.s. moves like cancelling ODAAT are nothing new. It's the same old story: use us (meaning, the "urban" audiences) to build your brand, then toss our asses out with the trash while you go chasing after white America. I hate to say it, but maybe Mo'Nique had a point about boycotting Netflix. Edited March 14, 2019 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 I get the issues with The Get Down and Sense8 - both were runaway productions and at least one (The Get Down) went massively overbudget and became a BTS nightmare before any of it aired. But with Sense8 they at least bowed to pressure and did a wrapup movie. ODAAT has to cost a fraction of both of those and it can't get another season? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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