Pablo O. Scholz
08/21/2021 6:00 AM
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Updated 08/21/2021 6:00 AM
I am going to ask you a question, simple, simple, direct, and you will see that it will take a few minutes to answer it.
There it goes.
How many series have views, which are not finished?
"Jupiter Legacy": Lady Liberty, The Utopian and Brainwave.
It was debut and farewell.
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I mean productions that the streaming platforms have yet to upload new seasons, I am not referring to those that abandoned because they rotted.
That would be another interesting question.
Take a few minutes and think about it.
How many productions are pending resolution.
Enjoy canceled
It all comes down to the fact that Netflix, for example, has been canceling several of its series, with one or two seasons on the air.
He was surprised to lose
Jupiter's Legacy
and
Country Comfort
, something that should not attract attention because the queen of world streaming platform premieres no less than 60 productions per month, including movies and series.
The protagonists of "Sense8", the series of the Wachowski sisters ("Matrix").
It did not work.
Netflix photo
But two out of every three series Netflix canceled since 2020 had a single season.
I had already canceled
Sense8
or
Altered Carbon
.
What does it obey?
On the one hand, the subscribers have not followed them as expected, but on the other, what it exposes is that when launching itself to produce more original content, it is betting.
And win and lose.
And with the increased proliferation of platforms it is clear that too many series are being produced and there is no way that they all have the attention of the public.
"Mindhunter", the David Fincher series.
The fans want me to come back.
But it seems not.
Netflix photo
An audience that begins to select, too, because it also begins to understand that there is no pocket that can hold it if it must subscribe to so many streaming platforms.
And this entertainment bubble, in the long run, has its consequences.
In the United States, not only "open" TV is down: subscriptions to "cable" channels as well.
A recent report indicates that every American household has no fewer than 4 digital platforms.
Anya Taylor Joy, the protagonist of "Lady's Gambit", miniseries and not series.
Netflix photo
North Americans - including Canadians - differentiate between miniseries and series, something that many in these lands tend to confuse.
They are not the same.
A miniseries begins and ends.
Examples?
Lady's Gambit
, on Netflix,
Chernobyl
and
The Undoing
, on HBO.
Mare of Easttown
, starring Kate Winslet, is an HBO miniseries that, due to its success, is very likely to be turned into a series.
The miniseries "Chernobyl": a worldwide success.
HBO photo
But with the series that remain with an expired ending, the viewer, upon learning that there will not be a new season that “closes” the story, roars.
That's right.
The
showrunners
, the creators behind the stories, know that each season - or each chapter - better have a
cliffhanger
at the end
, a hook with which the audience is precisely hooked.
And want to see - consume - more.
El Reino, the new Argentine original series from Netflix.
It is series.
I should go on.
Or not?
Netflix photo
Take
The Kingdom
, by Marceo Piñeyro, on Netflix.
The end of the eighth and last episode - no, I will not spoil it - could mark the end of the story of Pastor Emilio and his people in his presidential career.
If it ends here, it is not that there are loose ends.
It does have an "open" ending.
But if we want to see how the story continues with Diego Peretti, Mercedes Morán, Chino Darín and Peter Lanzani, it is not because of a cliffhanger, but because of the quality of what we saw.
Again, I go back to the beginning.
How many series do you have pending resolution?
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