Netflix has canceled ‘Kaos’ after one season.
What the fuck…
It was pretty popular and ended on a giant cliffhanger.
I dont get why streaming services sink so much money on these huge shows that they own, then cancel a month after they first air.
They need to start committing to entire arcs, give it 2 to 3 seasons with a good ending and it’s a show only that service will have forever.
Now even if new people watch the only season, they’ll get to the cliffhanger, find out it’s cancelled, and be less likely to try the next new Netflix show as soon as it comes out, which is a death spiral because more shows will get cancelled this fast.
They’re obsessed with short term profits because that’s what stockholders want, but that doesn’t make the content consumers work, so they have to keep raising prices so the stock always increases until one day it just dies.
My wife and I are halfway through the season, now series. Should I even bother watching the back half?
I think they’ve created this weird feedback loop for themselves too, where people are hesitant to start a new Netflix show because they don’t want to watch one season, get invested and then get left on a cliffhanger (as is the case here), which is causing them to cancel things early because not enough people are watching immediately and so on.
TBH if they’d just show a bit more trust and invest in the talent they hire, and give new shows a couple of seasons to find their feet and establish themselves it’d help them tremendously in the long term I think, but they don’t seem to be big on long term thinking.
That sucks. It was worth the watch and better than most trash on streaming.
Wow, I heard it was decent and was going to try it out. Now, why even bother? WTF Netflix, this shit JUST came out. WTF are you even doing?
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.
Well said. After hearing stories similar to this, I have avoided Netflix originals due to fear of show being canceled and ending on cliffhanger leaving many unanswered questions. It would bother me too much, better to not have seen it at all if there has not been a conclusion.
I really like Kaos and this is a bummer. Really goes to show that I shouldn’t get into any Netflix series until it’s all finished. Guess that one’s on me for thinking they wouldn’t cancel a well received show like this again…
Well that’s a bummer… I just finished watching Season 1 a couple of days ago, and was looking forward to seeing where they were going to go with the next one
This reminds me once again to be extra cautious of watching any Netfilx show unless it already has a couple of seasons under its belt…
…not that it worked for The OA. Fuck Netflix
