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Re:Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too ... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:35PM (#24781282)
We consume more literature in a year than last generations consumed in a lifetime. Filling all of that with groundbreaking writing is an impossible prospect. Competent production is much more scalable: if you can make one good episode you can make 100.
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Re:Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too ... by tsimionescu on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:26AM (#24784929)
> We consume more literature in a year than last generations consumed in a lifetime.

This is probably true if you take the average person, but there have always been people reading their entire lives, and there has been a mass market for bad literature for hundreds of years. Cervantes was decrying the state of literature and the huge amount of poor, samey chivalric books in 1605.

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Re:Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too ... by manigandham on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:00PM (#24783197)
We don't need to fill all of it to have some good shows, especially when those shows are already on top of the production ladder and aren't limited by funding. The top shows should be equivalently "top" in all aspects.
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