Why Netflix keeps cancelling your favourite shows | WIRED Explains
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Last year, sci-fi show Altered Carbon joined Sense8, The OA and Luke Cage in being axed from Netflix after just two seasons. What followed was the now-traditional furious fan campaign to save the series from an early death.
But while it’s sad for fans to see a show cut dramatically short, for Netflix, it comes down to the data. In this WIRED Explains, we explore the data metrics Netflix uses to decide whether to renew or axe a TV show.
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Because they don’t respect their customers’ experiences.
Because they pay for everything unlike traditional networks
Deciding not to go bankrupt is not disrespecting the customers. I totally agree with their business model for tv shows renewals.
@@tristavlog I'm not convinced this strategy is the best financially. It's short sighted and will hurt them in the long run though. They should at least be doing what they did with Sense 8 and wrapping shows up with movies or special episodes. They're creating a weak back catalogue of unfinished shows and they're straining their relationship with customers. As more 3rd parties pull their content off the services Netflix will just be left with a library of mostly incomplete shows that aren't worth watching. They're setting themselves up for future failure
All that matters is whether the show makes enough money to be profitable. How much the people who do watch think it is, is not important. That being said, if they gave more shows a chance to find its audience, it’s certainly possible that it will be a hit later on.
For real they they literally took off home home adventures with tip and oh. That was my favorite show
The problem is that the catalog becomes weaker as you don't want to watch that show later on if it's incomplete
Another problem I’ve noticed is when they do have something new coming out, they do nothing to advertise it outside of their platform
Even within their platform, sometimes they will not advertise something new if they believe you are not interested in it
We have to watch what they think we like not what we actually like
They cancelled shows before they get discovered by an audience because of horrible advertising that just doesn’t exist
I get it. But I wish when they axed a show they would make a feature-length final episode to tie things up.
Blame the writers that gamble their viewers to land another season deal. Netflix gives the writers freedom. So the writers shouldn't leave shows deliberately in cliffhangers when they don't know if they will get another season deal or not. Writers can address this issue in multiple ways, but sadly some don't care enough for their own fans' experience.
@@shmookins see now reading this after finding out the creators of inside job were told they were gonna get at least two seasons, and then got their show axed after one really makes me upset :,)
Yes and then I cancelled my Netflix subscription
Good
They got Nae nae'd
Netflix cancels shows that take risks to create amazing new content, they cancel those shows so they can fall back into their comfortable money making shows that get high foot traffic by being bland and easy to observe while not actually being good, they just want another big mouth season
so many childhood shows just dissolved. i remember seeing one season of one of my favourite shows missing, kinda sad how netflix is slow to add shows but quick to delete them
Two months is not enough time to decide if a show gets canceled. And what if hit shows like Dark and Stranger Things had been canceled
after a year ? They would have absolutely been ruined. We need to go back to a show a week to give the shows a bigger chance.
I am getting very tired of Netflix in Finland, not only do they cancel good shows but are so slow to add new ones. Any advice on a alternative network besides HBO?
true I loved Norsemen it was fantastically funny. what a terrible loss, and that's just for starters.
pirate your series
At least Amazon had the decency to make a series final season instead of doing a tablecloth pull.
If I like a show on Netflix it’s pretty much guaranteed to be canceled. I’m thinking of doing my own canceling. The latest show I loved is archive 81, which I think is fantastic. Better than American horror story. Cancelled! Pisses me off so much!
I love archive 81 and I feel it can become a cult hit, no ideas why Netflix will cancel it.
@@Baslium probably because not enough people were finishing the season
It used to be the case that series would last forever and gradually fizzle out. Than series finales were invented. I see a lot of shows that people say were cancelled when it actually had an ending. Sure, some like sense 8 and Marco Polo were truly cancelled, but a lot of shows, like queens gambit, were never intended to be long shows. Sometimes for the better. There is nothing worse than dragging a popular show just to milk it for money without actually any original idea on how to keep the story going.
TV networks also have the habit of axing series way soon, Fox being the greatest offender. At least, if a series Fails on netflix it is not because it was allotted a bad timeslot or released episodes in the wrong order (* cough * Firefly * cough *)
Here after 1899 got cancelled prematurely, so basically they will continue normie shows no matter if it's bad and axe shows that challenges, take risks and actually break new grounds, thankfully they'll cancel my access to Netflix themselves by removing password sharing this year
That's what happens when blind algorithms wear down everything to the lowest common denominator, Netflix is killing art and creativity on TV and deserves to die.
Utter disregards for its customer base. Not going to get a penny from me anymore
It's sad if the show is actually good, and some people just haven't realized or had the free time to watch it, and because the show's 28-day metric was simply trimmed not to produced in the future, then quietly sank and died slowly.
just like WIRED Explains who stopped uploading new videos 2 years ago
But now its gotten to the point where i refuse to watch a new series unless it is already finished. No point in filling my head with incomplete stories. Definitely not paying for that.
Truly a catch 22. I’m not so eager to start watching shows that have a major risk of getting cancelled, but if everybody thinks like that, it’s definetly getting cancelled.
On the other hand they drop a show all at once and you have to wait a year for the next season. Right now Disney is doing better, right after Wanda they put falcon and winter soldier
I frikin hate you Netflix,
For fking cancel my favorite childhood cartoon for 1-4 seasons.
1-4 SEASONS. NETFLIX.
And then you just what cancel a whole entire seasons for p0rn movies?
Yeah, no thx
Edit: sorry for raging..
Don't need to be sorry, I feel the same. My childhood show was removed as well, it was adventure times. What was yours?
ALTERED CARBON sadly didn't get it's last and 3rd season.
NCIS with its view number would probably been cancelled after 1-2 season in this day and age, later on it became the most popular drama show on television and is now on season 21, plus some successful spinoffs.
rip Sense8 :(
I KNOW RIGHT
Save The OA #SaveTheOA
Another fantastic show cancelled. So angry!
82 million households watched at least 2 minutes of Bridgerton? Not watched all of it... Do the autoplay previews count towards those 82 million?
Wished there had been a third season of The Punisher ...Got hooked to the characters and story
I think the big problem is, is that do you know advertising so when it actually releases nobody watches it because nobody knew it existed and because Amazon and Netflix only go by metrics and statistics, they assume it’s a a flop
And abandon in it before people have time to discover it
Streaming services do not give TV shows room to breathe
They literally expect it to be an instant sensational hit
Like squid games or
Money heist
They dont say the show is canceled they just leave it there just new users thing it is a new show when it came from 2016 and it stopted makong episodes for some years
I'm heart broken about Half Bad getting canceled... 😭☹️😣
The worst show they canceled for me was Marco Polo, they don't even delete it while its incomplete
Same. I really wanted to see how it ended
Why have a netflix when most of the shows gets cancelled leaving with a shitty ending...
I hate when Netflix remove seasons and add just new ones which I hate
I dont watch Netflix anymore ( I canceled it )....if a show you like doesn't have 53 BILLION VIEWERS!!,,, it's not making money,CANCEL IT!!!.....so I got tired of shows I like being canceled....I dont fcuk with Netflix anymore..
My fav anime got deleted😭😭😭😭😭 its Black lagoon
It’s like when tv shows move to a different night and time......😮
Netflix home of the cancelled shows?
Or do not use Netflix.
Sounds fair. Thanks for the explanation.
What about the patriot act ???
But then why was I able to watch 6 seasons of certain something just recently but now there are only 5 seasons??? WHYYYYYYYYY? Y? Yellow
I wonder wtf did Netflix do to my anime
Poor Anne with an E 😭😢
This doesn’t explain why they are slow to cancel bad/unpopular shows
Netflix is going about it the wrong way they want hi views but they do nothing to advertise their upcoming shows
How are people supposed to know to come to your platform to watch the specific TV show if they don’t know it exists
They also canceled my show Pokémon Horizons for no reason
Why?....The 💰. (Saved u four minutes)
Watch Amazon prime
I just came here to say bring back mindhunter 😢
There is positive news about Mindhunter is it’s not completely cancelled
It’s more of on a hiatus and letting the actors pursue other roles
It’s not officially cancelled
Rather, they’re trying to give the actors other opportunities
But I think it’s been long enough that they might not be doing anything with it
Why did The 100 just dissapear from netflix one day????????
They took of znation like why I didn’t finished it
Netflix just wants big faces for cheap prices
New show is bad and old show that I love got cancle.
this is why i stopped watching netflix
i watched a video from him like 6 years ago and it showed him being injected with something and the title said "become a cyborg" and it literally look so weird
NETFLIX WHERE MY HERO ACEDAMIA SEASON 2 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Okay but they got rid of Shrek... just to bring it back
Being has a tendency to 'return' to clusters
='the nature of solidarity' -a desire for empathy -(Wave)-(yin)
and also,
Being has a tendency to 'exist' as individuals
='the nature of self-expension' -a desire for breed-(Particle)-(Yang)
Likewise, humans have two elements.
We must realize that we all have both left and right elements
=Solidarity and Self reliance
No one has only one element.
so 'Sum' derived from 'two poles' , (thesis, antithesis, synthesis)
To develop intellect and ethics by harmonizing the two,
It is good to realize it and balance it properly
But A few people polarized the crowd(political partisanship)
without balancing themselves.
And They stole only the sum, only the synthesis from the triangle composition.
Now We all have to get out of this deceptive situation.
This is not the time for us to hate each other.
We have to track down those who have been manipulating us.
My netflix account is shut....
Netflix is overrated, VERY overrated.
It’s simple they cancel after season 2 of all shows. 🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍
hilda
Bye bye Netflix
Peep Show >
I’m your 666th like
I HATE @NETFLIX
Is call HYPE
because blackrock pay them to keep doing DEI woke show ?
this is somehow a dumb model and I hate netflix
Netflix his business model is create a show don’t advertise it in when nobody watches it cancel it
When was the last time you actually saw on Netflix advertisement outside of Netflix?
Even a short clip from a new TV show that’s coming out
TH-cam shorts has given me more advertising for Netflix shows an Amazon shows the Netflix and Amazon has ever done. All they need to do is create a TH-cam channel and post short clips.
Of their TV shows
So people can get interested
They are literally creating shows don’t advertise them, and then our surprised nobody watch the show because because nobody knew it existed
Have learned of like three shows that came out this year and got cancelled within a month of release
Because nobody watched it, but nobody knew it existed
Shows get taken off Netflix because their rights expired to them?
The problem is people have is they cancel shows that are really good
Just because of statistics
That are faulty because they are horrible at advertising shows
Most people do not discover a new show has come out three months after its release date
By then it’s already been cancelled
I’ve learned of a few shows that came out this year through TH-cam shorts because Netflix is horrible at advertising
Same with Amazon they’re horrible at advertising their shows
All they need to do is create a TH-cam account and post TH-cam shorts with short clips of their shows
Because that’s how people discover TV shows now
.
Netflix is making me mad my fav show is going to leave😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭