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Altered Carbon - Could Netflix do Dresden?
raidem:
By the end of the season 1, I was pretty much done with the series. Too much violence, violence against kids, women, men, nudity, sexual violence, blood, murders, etc. I'm glad it wrapped up and probably won't follow it much more.
I was wondering about another good show I should watch that has time travel and/or that is similar in appeal to Dresden Files. I watched Continuum and damn was that a great series.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: raidem on February 11, 2018, 01:07:03 AM ---By the end of the season 1, I was pretty much done with the series. Too much violence, violence against kids, women, men, nudity, sexual violence, blood, murders, etc. I'm glad it wrapped up and probably won't follow it much more.
I was wondering about another good show I should watch that has time travel and/or that is similar in appeal to Dresden Files. I watched Continuum and damn was that a great series.
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Have you watched Travelers on Netflix?
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on February 11, 2018, 12:57:43 AM ---But an example of them cancelling a popular high-budget sci-fi/mystery show was Sense8. Hard to know what the viewer numbers were like (as Netflix guards them strongly) but based on the size of the fanbase - it came down to the fact they wanted more money to dish around (unless you believe the conspiracy theories around Netflix's new corporate direction is to be more family friendly - I point to Altered Carbon to dispute that claim). Don't get me wrong, few other networks could do DF right - maybe Amazon or Starz, at a pinch HBO - but I think I would rather them streamline it a little while maintaining the core of the DF rather than losing the series half-way.
Indeed, but they did close off the ending a bit abruptly (new lead actor, bold but dangerous) and the main murder mystery tends to get in the way of all the other interesting mysteries - I really didn't care much about who or why Laurens Bancroft was killed in the end, I mostly was more interested in the Envoys, AI and dark stuff in the background. And the vague alien references.
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The only IRL reviews I heard for S8 all said it started bad but got better. My guess is that there was a decent fanbase that stuck through the rough beginning, but not enough to justify the budget. (No idea myself, I haven't watched it and don't know anything about the quality/cost)
Quantus:
As I understand it Sens8 got canned because it had a disproportionately huge budget because it needed to be filmed in multiple exotic locations. Any show that can get away with Soundstage & Green-screen is going to have a leg up.
I see it as similar network math as what killed Almost Human: it had all the same costs of the Procedural Cop Shows it was competing against, but on top of that it also needed a budget for both practical and CGI effects.
Rasins:
I did not know about Netflix doing it 100%. That makes sense, since they are a subscription service rather than beholden to sponsors. I like that.
But then isn't HBO, Starz, Showtime, and Hulu the same way? (I really don't know).
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Rasins on February 13, 2018, 03:12:17 PM ---I did not know about Netflix doing it 100%. That makes sense, since they are a subscription service rather than beholden to sponsors. I like that.
But then isn't HBO, Starz, Showtime, and Hulu the same way? (I really don't know).
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HBO and Starz yes, Hulu...sometimes? You have to pay extra to opt out of their advertising, but at the end of the day they are a distributor of others' contents a lot more than they are an original maker, so they still need to keep their Network Partners happy. Especially since their business model is more dependent on their partnerships to air current seasons of Network TV
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