[tobsmagoats]

Netflix is fast on its way to becoming HBO, when other companies pull their content they'll use the money to pay for more original content. I wouldn't be too worried about their financials at the moment, but rather a year down the road when other subscription services are established.

[echelon]

Given Netflix's propensity to burn money in an attempt to solve the problem, they're in for a world of hurt if things don't change. They fund and cancel so many projects it feels like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. They have a few hits, but this won't save them from the content behemoths.

I think Netflix should begin lobbying for a greatly retracted copyright period. Studios always need to produce, so this doesn't impact their bottom line. Streaming companies are needed to facilitate interchange. The one thing this does is handicap players with lots of IP and forces them to invest in new content. I think it would be a win for consumers and competition.

Lawmakers should take a serious look at Disney, too. They own a large and important swath of American culture, and they can effectively muscle out non-Disney content from both distribution and attention.

[rlayton2]

After a couple of cancellations of shows I was liking, I'm not generally that enthused about starting a new show. Especially given the trend of not resolving anything at the end of the first season, where you get no payoff at all. I don't mind cliffhangers, but resolve the season's main problem first! (ref: The Expanse)

[quelltext]

The Expanse has 3 seasons, a 4th coming. Not sure if Netflix has the rights to air those, though.

[salemh]

S4 of Expanse was actually picked up by Amazon, not Netflix.

[quelltext]

Yeah, but Netflix didn't cancel the show or discontinue seasons, given that it's not a Netflix series. So the complaint is fine in the context of "Netflix is losing content I like" but not when it comes to Netflix's (mis)treatment of their own shows.

[skinnymuch]

Expanse is continuing though!

[NeedMoreTea]

But their original content is racing towards terrible, which I actually find far more annoying than the ever reducing amount of content. I'm right on the brink of cancelling. There's no way in hell I'm going to subscribe to multiple services.

Even where they start strong they rapidly pivot and either completely and irretrievably ruin it, cancel before it got half a chance, or simply start stretching content way, way beyond breaking point. Entire seasons can feel like they started as two episodes. So just the same unique selling point as everyone else then. Why aren't those large budgets showing in script writing?

So I end up skipping far more of later seasons than I watch, and soon stop entirely...

[skinnymuch]

Wild. I think some of the best tv of the past couple of years is on Netflix. Dark, Haunting of Hill House, Glitch, American Vandal, Sex Education, just off the top of my head as top shows in recent history. Solid shows like Now You See Me just having come out. Solid movies like Always Be My Maybe just come out. Then guilty pleasure shows that are good too like Sabrina. And shows on networks that likely aren’t going to pull content for their own service like BBC shows with top notch content like The Fall are on Netflix too.

If I was stuck with one companies original new content. I don’t see how I wouldn’t pick Netflix for now.