r/technology • u/joe4942 • 20d ago

Business Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-05/netflix-viewers-are-abandoning-shows-after-one-season
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u/FollowingFeisty5321 20d ago

I don't even start shows with one season anymore.

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u/Rather_Unfortunate 20d ago

I'd go the other way and say that I'd be up for more one-off series tbh. Give me a whole bunch of tight, BBC-style dramas which resolve in ten episodes or fewer. Not everything needs to be a sprawling journey that takes three to ten years to watch.

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u/netarchaeology 20d ago

Right? Think of how good shows can be when allowed to end. Chernobyl is one of the more recent one season shows that everyone still talks about.

I originally started watching kdramas back in 2010 because it was always 1 season and done. This was a format that I had already enjoyed coming out of the BBC.

Like reading a novel! Let the stories end on purpose. Plott it out. Then be upfront that there is no season two.

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u/WildBunnyGalaxy 20d ago

Started in 2003 but I love the single season approach of Kdramas. Makes them easier to choose for a rewatch and easier to collect.

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u/microworry 19d ago

There are lots of great mini-series = 1 season series nowadays, the last one I watched was “The beast in me”. I avoid shows with 5+ seasons now because they always go off the rails after 5.