Thank you all for the show recommendations

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    1 year ago

    Dirk Gently’s :( fuck you Netflix.

    Seriously, cancelling the show WHEN THEY FUCKING OPEN THE HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY?? My boy Elijah Wood was soo good on this!!! :((

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      I don’t understand why Netflix doesn’t just make movies instead of TV shows.

      Or make short series instead of multi-season.

      They are good at making great first season TV but then if it doesn’t get their magic number they cancel it and leave their customers hanging.

      Just make the one season as an open and closed thing and call it that so no one gets their expectations up.

      If it becomes some awesome hit thing, make an actual series as an offshoot / spinoff type thing.

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        Netflix only cares about new subs. New IPs drive new subs. New seasons of old IPs are money spent on people who are already customers. They make one season of a show you’ve been waiting for, you sign up, you watch that season, they cancel the show, statistically speaking you probably don’t cancel your subscription and then they redirect that money to running the same game on someone else.

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        1 year ago

        I really don’t understand their business model tbh.

        It seems like it’s just “burn as much money as fast as possible”.

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        1 year ago

        Literally one of favourite TV shows ever, and just two seasons*. So many good feelings and great characters. Awesome actors and some of Douglas Adams’s best books ever?

        Netflix fucking sucks man.

        edit: corrected by peep

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      You think Netflix fucked over that Dirk Gently?

      ITV made a Dirk Gently show that was FOUR EPISODES LONG and it was better than the other show.

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        1 year ago

        Gotta admit I didn’t watch that… I found out about it after I finished the Netflix show, and that it was cancelled. So I felt salty. Maybe I should watch it…

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          It’s much closer to the books. It deserved at least a British season of six episodes.

          I also like Stephen Mangan’s Dirk more than Samuel Barnett’s Dirk, but then I’d watch Stephen Mangan read a newspaper.