[theshrike79]

This is exactly the Apple model. "Quality not quantity".

ATV+ doesn't have the glut of content that Netflix has, but pretty much all of their stuff is 8/10 or over on most rating sites. They might not be to your exact tastes, but they're still damn good.

[nightski]

Oh yeah, like the Foundation series. Not a letdown at all, pure Apple quality there.

[dmitriid]

When the first trailers for Foundation came out I decided to re-read the books, I liked them as a kid. So I did. I re-read all of Foundation and Robots of the Dawn.

AppleTV+'s take on Foundation is the best thing that could possibly happen to the books.

Asimov was a bad writer, and the product of his era. His ideas about Seldon crises were rather good, but everything around was just bad. People don't have dialogs, they proselytise and have monologues at each other. Women are non-existent, or serve as furniture (except maybe two characters in both series combined). There's a huge disconnect between what technology is imagined to do (FTL, detailed holographic maps of the Galaxy) and how it's used (calculations done with pen-and-paper, newspapers and communications printed out even on FTL ships). And so on.

Foundation series took the premise and ran away with it. And good for them.

[theshrike79]

The Foundation books are just people with zero personality talking about their plans in an office or a starship bridge. Usually congratulating themselves on how well their plans went.

Then we jump in time, the previous people are mostly dead and a new group of people talk in a room.

It's not exactly riveting stuff for TV.

[relyks]

Imo, Foundation has so far been well done and produced and I enjoyed it. Their version of the books just isn't that representative of the source material it was based of off

[keerthiko]

This is nonsense. ATV is struggling to build a library worthy of a subscription.

Over the last 2-3 years, I sign up when a season of a show I hear good things about is completely out (Ted Lasso, Severance, etc) and then watch another show or movie or two for the month it takes me to finish that season.

I have never bumped into another show that made it worth renewing for a consecutive month, despite the show that I came for being totally worth the one month, and there being other shows that are strongly "related".

I will admit the production quality of the shows is very high on average, but that's not the same thing as the shows being very good.

[theshrike79]

The shows are objectively good, they are just made for very specific niches.

Take Schmigadoon! for example. It's specifically aimed at people who love musicals and can spot all of the homages in it. Without that knowledge it's just a slightly above average comedy with singing bits.

The Morning Show is about women struggling in a workplace, not exactly something that would hook a random midwest dudebro, but still a damn good show for those who it's directed towards.