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  • I was nervous about doing the character justice. I was nervous about what it would be like to work in a giant franchise, because I’ve never experienced that before. I was nervous about being bad.

    She played the Mother on How I Met Your Mother, she has absolutely experienced this before.

    That being said, yeah this is just standard nerves, so I get that.













  • I liked this episode, but both this week and last week felt like setup for the finale.

    Doctor Phosphorus’s backstory was so simple. Tragic, but simple. (Bonus Batman was nice.)

    The preview for next week shows, unsurprisingly, that we’re getting Nina’s backstory. I hope there is enough time (or maybe a secret double length episode).


  • That’s another good point and what I was getting at in terms of patterns.

    Without a clear breakdown of what is being added and what is being removed (on a category level) it’s difficult to really know what these cancellations mean.

    My personal metric for subscribing to a streaming service is “one new show per month”, but that rule has the implied “…that I want to watch”.

    If Netflix is only adding garbage I don’t want to watch, it doesn’t really matter. (As a side note I don’t currently subscribe to Netflix after it failed the above metric a few years ago, it may have shows I’d watch now, but I don’t miss it enough to go back and look.)


  • This does help paint a better picture, but they clearly use different units so it’s tough to compare.

    Although even if I’m generous with how I compare I don’t see how Netflix added 238 original “items” in 2024. There must be a lot of cheap content or Netflix license/branded content after the fact.

    Also the article makes another good point,

    Basically, it is currently impossible to tell the difference between a single season and a Limited Series on Netflix as their labeling is inconsistent.

    Similar to the finale problem, you can’t just assume a show that stops after “one season” was cancelled, it might just have been one season. (Of course some miniseries get extended, so that’s also tricky.)


  • But how many new shows did Netflix launch?

    It they cancelled 16 shows, but launched 18, that’s rough. If they cancelled 16 shows but launched 32, that might be ok.

    We also have to compare to others services and other years to see really come to a conclusion.

    Also this article mixes together shows that are getting a final season and ones that are cancelled. A show coming to a logical ending is great.

    And in one instance a show was renewed for two more seasons, the second of which would be it’s last. Is that show really cancelled for 2024?

    Also again, do the cancellations have anything in common? Did Netflix spend the past X years trying to create a specific genre of show and now they’re giving up or found that they failed?

    I’m as frustrated as anyone that shows I like are cancelled or that streaming services cancelled before they can figure themselves out, but articles like these are so frustrating. They pretend to be informative but really tell you nothing useful.