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Bring back Tuca and Bertie!
I canceled Netflix because they canceled so many unsuccessful shows that I thought were pretty good >

Sure, if you define success as not having been cancelled, his statement is correct >

Exactly. I haven't killed a single living person. >

Can't cancel a successful show if you cancel everything before it has a chance to become one! >

That's cool Ted. I've never told anyone to watch Netflix because all the shows I like get cancelled. They already know about the 5 popular ones. >

I mean, once you cancel it it’s no longer successful, so he’s right! >

He's obviously delusional. 
These idiots don't want just success, they expect all their shows to reach Stranger Things or Squid Game levels of success.
What really determines that a show is successful anyway? They should be looking into that instead of just saying bullshit like this. >

Shows are only successful if everyone binges them in the first week. Having a backlog of shows that last all the way to the end of the story seems to not be important to them. >

I'm probably the only lilyhammer fan but I was sad it wasn't properly finished >

The intro to that show scares the daylights out of my parents cats, to the point that Lilyhammering became a word they use anytime something startling happens. >

I want Mindhunter back. >

Mindhunter wasn't canceled. Fincher decided other projects were a higher priority for him and they eventually released everyone from their contracts since he wasn't doing the next season. Fingers crossed he decides to do it and they can get everyone back. I wish they'd have found someone to take over the series instead of letting him end it. >

It was so good, dammit. >

Is he okay? >

I never watch Netflix shows until they have a few seasons >

Final space still got fucked >

Final Space was Turner and Adult Swim. Netflix only had the streaming rights >

Really? I never saw anything about it on adult swim. I knew it was conans company >

I actually watched it on Adult Swim, stumbled upon it looking for something as background noise while I did dishes, saw Final Space aaaaand.. Dishes weren't done that night. God I was so upset when I saw it was cancelled (ON YOUTUBE.). >

What about Santa Clarita Diet? Disjointed? >

I'm still mad about Santa Clarita. That show was so good and the chemistry between all the characters (not just Drew and Timothy, but the whole cast) was super enjoyable. >

Mr ball leg needs a spin off >

i hate merchandizing but Wednesday could use a more plush sidekick >

This title suggests Ted Sarandos is hopelessly out of touch with the audience and is incapable of equating the cancellation of multiple popular shows with the loss of viewers who are sick of buying into characters and storylines only for the shows to be cancelled after one or two series.
I recently cancelled my 8 year Netflix membership and have no intention of going back despite how many "Lets get back together" and "we've added x TV programmes and films" junk emails they want to send me. 
I had brand loyalty and was naively against services like Disney+ who i thought simply wanted a piece of the streaming pie, now given the decline of Netflix I've decided was misplaced and there are many better options. >

Netflix has George Santos energy >

Shall we start listing them all now, or wait a few minutes? >

Cool. So when is Travelers coming back? >

I really loved that show.  Started off as a I guess I can have this on while doing chores.....moved to omfg I'm going to have to rewatch it immediately. >

MST3K?
Fans funded the whole 13th season on their own after funding a lot of 11 so that Netflix could pick it up, throttle the 12th season, then drop it >

Funny that it’s on the AV club, which came from the onion. >

That’s called a self fulfilling prophecy Ted. >

So they've never had a successful show? >

Didn’t they cancel Dark Crystal literally hours after it won an Emmy? >

Awards and critical acclaim =\= $ >

thats a huge lie >

Ted Sarandos is happy to announce that Ted Sarandos is canceling Ted Sarandos for lack of being a successful show. >

Great application of the No True Scotsman fallacy. >

Huh, seems like somebody greenlit a LOT of unsuccessful shows. I wonder who did that, Ted? >

I really miss Daredevil >

I mean that was Disney not Netflix. Plus another season is coming out. >

Tell that to the Dark Crystal >

Show of hands, who calls bullshit? >

What's his definition of "successful show" >

Shows that don't get cancelled >

Is this like "I like people who weren't captured"? >

Talk about out of touch with your user base. >

If Netflix wasn’t free courtesy of Comcast, I’d have cancelled that shiz a long time ago. >

I think they are using some metrics a lot of us wouldn’t agree with. >

His head is certainly pretty far up his ass. >

I assume the metric for success is simply a ratio of operating cost versus viewership. Seems pretty obviously like all other television networks, but what's the ratio? 
Does that count too for tentpole or award bait properties, though? >

Wasn't "I'm not okay with this" cancelled due to difficulty dealing with a large cast during covid. Weren't there other shows that fell under that reason for cancelation?  Please tell me if I'm wrong about the reasoning but if I'm not then don't those count as successful cancelations? >

So so so massively incorrect. Seems like they’ve mostly only cancelled successful shows. And didn’t they just let their CEO go? >

That's him >

You stupid fucks are confusing successful for “show I like” Why the fuck would Netflix cancel shows that make money? Nah Teds probably right. They probably only canceled shows that lose or aren’t making enough money. And that’s how they measure success >

What's the oniony bit here?
Netflix has metrics for success.  They cancel shows that don't meet them, and don't cancel shows that do. >

Their metrics are bad. They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth hits (like Squid Game and Stranger Things) that bring in new users and not on a long-term plan around loyalty and retention. Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.
Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now so I think they should listen to their users. >


They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth

This is pure speculation on your part.  I like how you treat it as a fact.

Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.

Care to speculate some more, maybe on when and why I canceled my subscription?  It'll be funny to see you completely whiff another one.

Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now 

No, it hasn't.  It had a precipitous fall in the first half of 2022.  It's been steadily trending upwards since then.

so I think they should listen to their users.

You should probably learn what their actual motives are and what their stock is actually doing before forming such opinions. >

Of course this is a useless source in a Reddit argument but my friend is an engineer at Netflix and I'm mostly echoing her takes. Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating. I don't really care why you cancelled your netflix subscription. >


Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating. 

Unless she's routinely invited to board meetings or she's peeping at people's emails, she is.  I was an engineer at Paypal and I can tell you exactly 0% about how top management came to their decisions.  Same with every other Fortune 500 company I've worked for, and there are a handful. >

That's fair. I feel like I usually understand what's going on strategically at the companies I work for, but also all the businesses I've worked for have had less than 200 employees or so, so it's not that hard. I imagine the level of transparency is not high at a Fortune 500. >

Guess that makes Ted a liar now, don’t it >

I want Inside Job and Dead End back. >

Netflix has cancelled more shit than Twitter. >

Bring back Tuca and Bertie! >

Ha! >

I wasn't born to two parents. >

Best for Netflix is small budget large audience...
But don't tell them that. >

Say you only watch the most popular shows without saying you only watch the most popular shows >

absolute lier. they cancelled inside job for a tax wright off. >

So much ignorance on this thread about how shows get made and how the streaming business works. 
Luckily Netflix gives few shits about Redditors, unless they are gifting millions in free positive publicity for a show. It will not preserve that show for you, but appreciate the pub! >

I canceled Netflix because they canceled so many unsuccessful shows that I thought were pretty good >

Sure, if you define success as not having been cancelled, his statement is correct >

Exactly. I haven't killed a single living person. >

Can't cancel a successful show if you cancel everything before it has a chance to become one! >

That's cool Ted. I've never told anyone to watch Netflix because all the shows I like get cancelled. They already know about the 5 popular ones. >

I mean, once you cancel it it’s no longer successful, so he’s right! >

He's obviously delusional. 
These idiots don't want just success, they expect all their shows to reach Stranger Things or Squid Game levels of success.
What really determines that a show is successful anyway? They should be looking into that instead of just saying bullshit like this. >

Shows are only successful if everyone binges them in the first week. Having a backlog of shows that last all the way to the end of the story seems to not be important to them. >

I'm probably the only lilyhammer fan but I was sad it wasn't properly finished >

The intro to that show scares the daylights out of my parents cats, to the point that Lilyhammering became a word they use anytime something startling happens. >

I want Mindhunter back. >

Mindhunter wasn't canceled. Fincher decided other projects were a higher priority for him and they eventually released everyone from their contracts since he wasn't doing the next season. Fingers crossed he decides to do it and they can get everyone back. I wish they'd have found someone to take over the series instead of letting him end it. >

It was so good, dammit. >

Is he okay? >

I never watch Netflix shows until they have a few seasons >

Final space still got fucked >

Final Space was Turner and Adult Swim. Netflix only had the streaming rights >

Really? I never saw anything about it on adult swim. I knew it was conans company >

I actually watched it on Adult Swim, stumbled upon it looking for something as background noise while I did dishes, saw Final Space aaaaand.. Dishes weren't done that night. God I was so upset when I saw it was cancelled (ON YOUTUBE.). >

What about Santa Clarita Diet? Disjointed? >

I'm still mad about Santa Clarita. That show was so good and the chemistry between all the characters (not just Drew and Timothy, but the whole cast) was super enjoyable. >

Mr ball leg needs a spin off >

i hate merchandizing but Wednesday could use a more plush sidekick >

Shall we start listing them all now, or wait a few minutes? >

This title suggests Ted Sarandos is hopelessly out of touch with the audience and is incapable of equating the cancellation of multiple popular shows with the loss of viewers who are sick of buying into characters and storylines only for the shows to be cancelled after one or two series.
I recently cancelled my 8 year Netflix membership and have no intention of going back despite how many "Lets get back together" and "we've added x TV programmes and films" junk emails they want to send me. 
I had brand loyalty and was naively against services like Disney+ who i thought simply wanted a piece of the streaming pie, now given the decline of Netflix I've decided was misplaced and there are many better options. >

Netflix has George Santos energy >

Cool. So when is Travelers coming back? >

I really loved that show.  Started off as a I guess I can have this on while doing chores.....moved to omfg I'm going to have to rewatch it immediately. >

MST3K?
Fans funded the whole 13th season on their own after funding a lot of 11 so that Netflix could pick it up, throttle the 12th season, then drop it >

Funny that it’s on the AV club, which came from the onion. >

That’s called a self fulfilling prophecy Ted. >

So they've never had a successful show? >

Show of hands, who calls bullshit? >

Didn’t they cancel Dark Crystal literally hours after it won an Emmy? >

Awards and critical acclaim =\= $ >

thats a huge lie >

Ted Sarandos is happy to announce that Ted Sarandos is canceling Ted Sarandos for lack of being a successful show. >

Great application of the No True Scotsman fallacy. >

Huh, seems like somebody greenlit a LOT of unsuccessful shows. I wonder who did that, Ted? >

I really miss Daredevil >

I mean that was Disney not Netflix. Plus another season is coming out. >

Tell that to the Dark Crystal >

What's his definition of "successful show" >

Whatever internal benchmarks a show of a given budget needs to meet for Netflix to continue it.
Thus his statement is absolutely true, but also almost tautological to the point of being useless. >

This is some 'the front fell off' levels of bullshit, really.
"We're cancelling your show because it's not successful."
"How do you know it's not successful?"
"Well, we're cancelling it for starters. That doesn't happen when it's successful." >

Talk about out of touch with your user base. >

If Netflix wasn’t free courtesy of Comcast, I’d have cancelled that shiz a long time ago. >

I think they are using some metrics a lot of us wouldn’t agree with. >

His head is certainly pretty far up his ass. >

I assume the metric for success is simply a ratio of operating cost versus viewership. Seems pretty obviously like all other television networks, but what's the ratio? 
Does that count too for tentpole or award bait properties, though? >

Wasn't "I'm not okay with this" cancelled due to difficulty dealing with a large cast during covid. Weren't there other shows that fell under that reason for cancelation?  Please tell me if I'm wrong about the reasoning but if I'm not then don't those count as successful cancelations? >

So so so massively incorrect. Seems like they’ve mostly only cancelled successful shows. And didn’t they just let their CEO go? >

That's him >

You stupid fucks are confusing successful for “show I like” Why the fuck would Netflix cancel shows that make money? Nah Teds probably right. They probably only canceled shows that lose or aren’t making enough money. And that’s how they measure success >

What's the oniony bit here?
Netflix has metrics for success.  They cancel shows that don't meet them, and don't cancel shows that do. >

Their metrics are bad. They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth hits (like Squid Game and Stranger Things) that bring in new users and not on a long-term plan around loyalty and retention. Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.
Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now so I think they should listen to their users. >


They focus entirely on short term, rapid growth

This is pure speculation on your part.  I like how you treat it as a fact.

Then they wonder why they can't keep users around.

Care to speculate some more, maybe on when and why I canceled my subscription?  It'll be funny to see you completely whiff another one.

Their stock has been on a downward slope for a long time now 

No, it hasn't.  It had a precipitous fall in the first half of 2022.  It's been steadily trending upwards since then.

so I think they should listen to their users.

You should probably learn what their actual motives are and what their stock is actually doing before forming such opinions. >

Of course this is a useless source in a Reddit argument but my friend is an engineer at Netflix and I'm mostly echoing her takes. Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating. I don't really care why you cancelled your netflix subscription. >


Ofc she can be wrong but I'm not completely speculating. 

Unless she's routinely invited to board meetings or she's peeping at people's emails, she is.  I was an engineer at Paypal and I can tell you exactly 0% about how top management came to their decisions.  Same with every other Fortune 500 company I've worked for, and there are a handful. >

That's fair. I feel like I usually understand what's going on strategically at the companies I work for, but also all the businesses I've worked for have had less than 200 employees or so, so it's not that hard. I imagine the level of transparency is not high at a Fortune 500. >

Guess that makes Ted a liar now, don’t it >

I want Inside Job and Dead End back. >

Netflix has cancelled more shit than Twitter.