But Netflix is showing no signs of slowing down its cancelation spree anytime soon, so we're stuck asking for the smallest amount of responsibility for managing their catalog in a user-friendly way. It’s not remotely the same as, you know, not cancelling any show that’s not as big a hit as Wednesday or Stranger Things or even giving more shows soft cancelations that give them one last (possibly shortened) season to wrap things up. We check Netflix hundreds of times a day, so you can check back regularly to see when it appears. You should probably just go watch Stranger Things instead." That way, whenever an unsuspecting Netflix subscriber comes across the corpse of a once-promising show, they can make an informed decision about what they’re about to watch rather than stumble into yet another television heartbreak. Sorry, Unfinished Business is not available on Netflix USA. Something to the effect of, "The following show was canceled for not living up to our unrealistic and esoteric standards. For example, why not make a tiny change to its user interface that lets viewers see when a show is cancelled? Perhaps a label on the thumbnail or on the information page (or both!) and a disclaimer to run before the first episode. I’m a huge fan of many of their original series. If Netflix is going to keep up this Draconian management of its own original content, it needs to do better in other ways. Netflix might seem like a great way to sit back and relax, but it really doesn’t work that way after all. Netflix’s business decisions show that it either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about this fact, and so it continues to green light dozens of first acts that will never get to tell the rest of their stories. In the age of massive serialized blockbusters like The Mandalorian, Rings of Power, and The Last of Us, television isn’t being made the way it used to be. But the difference isn't as significant as it used to be. Sure, there are a lot of differences between making television shows and making movies. It’s the equivalent of a major film studio filming the first act of a movie and putting that into theaters to see if there’s enough interest in acts two and three for them to bother making them. Many shows haven’t told a complete story by the time they’ve finished their first or even second season, leaving multiple storylines unresolved if they’re canceled. So many shows are built to have overarching narratives that span multiple seasons, often planned out several seasons in advance. This whole situation is made worse by the fact that a lot of television these days is heavily serialized.
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