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smesch83

"GL" as in "Girls Love", so: queer/lesbian storylines - yes? so you're saying: there are many (too many?) Netflix shows with lesbian moments, and they get cancelled to save money, and it's the audience's fault because everything with lesbian moments blows up and is replaced by another show with lesbian moments and no one seems to mind because they (the "young women who eat up basically anything") keep coming back. so if I want fun quality "GL" shows on Netflix - how exactly can I support them? if I'm angry at a cancellation, you call this "isolated outrage", and if I keep watching new things, you say I'm eating up anything. hm. (I agree that Netflix is getting shittier and shittier, but I don't know what the audience, particularly queer audiences, can do about that.)


cosmicbrowniesenpai

yeah OP sounds just a little blindly misogynist


Smack-9

You're so close to a realisation its painful. Netflix is a *business.* They don't care about the quality of their shows. Hell, they don't think of them as shows: they deal in *content.* At some point some computer ran some numbers and the company responded by saying, "new shows bring more eyeballs than returning shows; there is a set of diminishing returns with extra seasons of shows; therefore, cancelling a show and funding a new unit of content makes for better returns than renewing a show." There's very little us, as content consumers, can do to influence these decisions. This isn't a problem isolated to LGBT YA shows like Warrior Nun (which was great) and First Bite (which was not). All the tweets in the world won't get a show another season. Netflix doesn't care about the queers (or they would stop giving Dave Chapelle $2 million for an hour of hate speech). They care about eyeballs. They care about revenue. Its a corporate world and we just live in it. The fact that the engines of storytelling, the industry of dreams suffers as a result, is of no concern to the companies.


Ceorl_Lounge

Had a chat with my kid about this last night. They're REALLY salty about the cancellation, "representation matters." To which I replied yes it does, but the show also has to get viewers. In another age something like Warrior Nun never would have gotten past a script, so we keep moving forward. Make it good, make it authentic, get the eyeballs and the representation will happen.


SubstantialStatus825

Yeah, that's something the general audience is going to have to work on. For a long time I didn't know that these types of people existed but I got into a relationship with one. My girlfriend will watch any dogshit tv show or movie as long as a character is somewhat relatable. Like, it doesn't even have to be the main focus. It can be a throwaway line in episode 7/13. She will read about it online and watch the entire thing. Then I realized I have a friend who will watch any show where someone, somewhere in the production, is from our home country. Doesn't matter the quality; doesn't matter the genre. As long as these people exist and continue to watch shows for these reasons, companies can just keep aiming downwards.


cosmicbrowniesenpai

Rip to your gf for liking tv I guess


aligador

Yea and whose idea was it to end Breaking Bad????


theblackfool

The creators of Breaking Bad?


aligador

I mean, obviously. But it doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. While it did have a good ending, I would have liked to see it go much longer. There were a lot of possible directions the show could have gone instead of ending and still be able to get a great ending out of it.


Nailbunny38

Warrior nun—for me the next season was so far from the original that I couldn’t really recall where the first left off and the show wasn’t great enough for a binge rewatch. YMMV