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hypnox posted...

Its like they don't realize that having a library of completed series is better than trying out a new show and canceling it just because <insert what ever their target percentage is> watched the show in its first month.

This isn't actually true, though, and they have the market research to prove it.

They get more subscriptions out of the allure of new content than they do "complete" series. It's always more profitable for them in the long-run to cancel shows after a couple seasons (after outside interest/hype fades) than it is for them to keep pumping resources into something that is no longer spurring new adoption. They're much better off using those resources to create new projects that might draw in new eyes.

And if a product is so bad or so reviled that it isn't drawing any new eyes, or is actively turning people away, they're far better off mercy-killing it than they are nursing it along in the hopes that it will eventually stop sucking.

It may not be the ideal scenario for the viewer, but Netflix doesn't actually care about the ideal scenario for the viewer. Their job is to run things in the ideal way for Netflix to profit.