When I’m deciding on a show to watch, I am far more likely to choose a show that has 3 seasons or more, because, like, why get invested in characters and their arcs, just to have them disappear before they complete their journey? Netflix is so short sighted with this. There’s so much to watch these days, you don’t have to re-watch anything, you can find original, quality shows to watch endlessly. And with that in mind, it means that while we may not pay attention to a show that just came out, that doesn’t mean I won’t revisit that same show after a few years and a few more seasons.

If a show is good enough to make, and you believe in it, then let your creators make more.

Shows these days don’t need to be watched immediately to have an impact, and it’s in the later years of a show, when you hold the streaming rights, that it brings in money. It’s not even that their counting their chickens before they hatch, it’s like they’re counting their chickens, before the hen has even finished laying the eggs, and preemptively slaughtering the hen because it didn’t lay enough eggs quick enough. Putting bean-counters, propped up by AI-fueled investment calculators, in charge of programming will only ever result in continued disappointment. To their bottom-line and to the art produced.