‘Unstable’ Canceled By Netflix After 2 Seasons
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Netflix is not proceeding with a third season of Unstable, its comedy series starring and co-created/EP-ed by Rob Lowe and his son John Owen Lowe.

Netflix is not proceeding with a third season of Unstable, its comedy series starring and co-created/EP-ed by Rob Lowe and his son John Owen Lowe.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 month ago

    I see this response with some degree of frequency here on Lemmy (and Reddit before) when a movie/game bombs, or a show is cancelled, and I have to wonder how valid it is. Like, I would suspect that the population that uses Lemmy regularly and the population that takes steps to remove corporate advertising from their lives form an essentially circular Venn diagram.

    At a certain point, easy though it is to blame marketers for not getting the word out, folks need to acknowledge the fact that, when advertisers come knocking at their door, they’re turning off the porch light and closing the blinds.

    Which is not to imply that people have anything approaching an obligation to open themselves up to advertising. I’m just saying that blaming a lack of ads while running an ad blocker seems disingenuous.

    For the record, OP, not an attack on you or anything, just voicing some thoughts that have been percolating since reading about a couple high profile flops and cancellations this summer.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 month ago

      I think part of it is only being tuned into the services you have.

      I have Hulu and there are a number of reoccurring or old shows on Hulu that I watch. As a result I’m usually aware of what Hulu is offering, even if it’s only once a show returns.

      I also have HBO, but I watch a lot less on HBO, so HBO only has a chance about once a week to get my attention.

      I don’t have Netflix, so I have no idea what’s going on over there.

      This actually burned me once since, while watching Doom Patrol on HBO, I was looking up information/news about the show and discovered that a spin-off type show called Dead Boy Detectives was coming out soon. What I didn’t see is that it was moving to Netflix, and not HBO. Naturally I forgot about it and HBO never advertised it (not their show), so what did I see as a headline a few months ago? It had been cancelled.

      I think as Netflix has gained a cancellation reputation, they’re finding people are leaving and not coming back. I know they’re trying to improve this, but it’s going to take a lot of effort.