DAN FLASHES

I get it. But it’s not like they are deleting ALL the content, so of course there are still lots of shows to watch.

More broadly, I guess maybe I just never believed that streaming services would hold content in their service forever…or even for very long.

It’s in the streamer’s best interest to create “windows” as they always have…from first-run to re-runs; to the Disney Vault; to sending shows to Netflix 90 days after DVD release.

This has always been a part of the industry and I see no reason to expect that they would have changed just because the delivery mechanism has changed again.

Every show runner has a responsibility to have an ending ready at any time, and build their show in a way that it feels like a satisfying end whenever, because they know the media environment they exist in.

I’m not sure why it’s so upsetting to people that some shows are getting cancelled.

There is too much content. There is just too much to watch, you could spend the next 5 years just working through a backlog of great scripted shows that have come out in 2017-2022, and you would still not get through it all.

There are hundreds of high quality scripted shows that you haven’t seen yet. Just watch one of those.

Shows are made to end. Yes, it’s sad, but it’s inevitable. We can love shows and still lose them. They can’t rage against the dying of the light forever.