Current Events > Netflix cancels 1899 after 1 season.

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It's a goddamn horse shit decision is what that is.

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Ill wait for 1900

I thought this was one of those Yellowstone spin offs but I remember this now and basically same as above, I didnt stick it out.

Sucks its cancelled though, seems like you enjoyed it.

I'll probably never use Netflix again as soon as Stranger Things is over, they cancel everything else worth watching

Or ruin it like The Witcher

I'm really new to it. Watched Dark, was in love with it, went right to 1899 afterwards and loved season 1 of that, too. Loved the setting, the multicultural cast and how they interacted and couldn't interact, and it had one hell of a mystery. Similarly to Dark, I felt things were going to batshit crazy in S2 & 3. Now we'll never get to know, but at least we're getting more WITCHER.

I'm still bummed about Archive 81

I'm still sour over Mindhunter getting the axe

I'm still bummed the7 cancelled Julie and the phantoms

Dark was so damn good

Edited OP with the proper message instead of just me being sour lol.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I'm still sour over Mindhunter getting the axe

Mindhunter hurt me a lot, too. I loved that one.

Well at least Sandman is getting more episodes for now.

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This. Over the last decade I've wasted too much time already on series with long silent sequences of characters trying to be as vague as possible like they have some deep scheme or mysterious background going on, while in the end they're almost always just everyday people who have no idea what the fuck they're doing.

Was going to post this

Still with the narrative that whatever Netflix cancels was the best show ever?

So this dies, but a prequel to Witcher that everyone hates got made

Yay

MabusIncarnate posted...

I'm still sour over Mindhunter getting the axe

Mindhunter axed itself. Fincher got distracted and basically gave up on it.

Imagine watching a netflix show before it gets six seasons lmao

Pretty dumb move to get the people who made Dark to make a show and not at least give them two seasons to build an audience. Its not like Dark had a huge following with s1. Or you know, they could advertise their fucking shows.

There's still a chance Mindhunter might come back. It was never technically cancelled. David Fincher just couldn't stand TV work scheduling and instead of postponing the season he released the actors and crew from their contracts. He said he'd come back to it if he is able to.

Smashingpmkns posted...

There's still a chance Mindhunter might come back. It was never technically cancelled. David Fincher just couldn't stand TV work scheduling and instead of postponing the season he released the actors and crew from their contracts. He said he'd come back to it if he is able to.

Problem is that all the actors have moved on. Getting them back will be a serious pain.

refmon posted...

Imagine watching a netflix show before it gets six seasons lmao

Dark never intended 6 seasons. It came to a solid and satisfactory story conclusion in the final season 3 episode

MabusIncarnate posted...

I thought this was one of those Yellowstone spin offs but I remember this now and basically same as above, I didnt stick it out.

Sucks its cancelled though, seems like you enjoyed it.

I think the name was a big mistake yeah. Especially since Yellowstone and those spin-offs are ridiculously popular.

I'm hoping Bo and Jantje are able to go to another network and continue 1899 that way. It's planned for only 3 seasons anyway. But time will tell with that one, no clue what their contract is.

Compsognathus posted...

Problem is that all the actors have moved on. Getting them back will be a serious pain.

This and what you said about Fincher essentially wandering off is bummer news.

More like 1984 :(

This is why I don't usually watch Netflix shows until they have at least two seasons.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

This is why I don't usually watch Netflix shows until they have at least two seasons.

Right? The problem here is they need so many viewers to get additional seasons since Netflix is heavy with the axe that reluctant viewers then hurt the ratings.

Make no mistake; I'm not blaming the viewers. This death spiral is just an issue if you get a reputation for being quick to cancel as Netflix has gotten. The content shuffle benefit from a lot of new shows by not holding too long onto old ones eventually starts to eat its own tail if nobody commits to watching any of their shows because they foresee it's swift demise.

Do you know what Netflix considers good or bad viewer ratings? Iirc 1899 had 80mil viewers and was charting in multiple countries and all that. I thought it did well and between that and with Dark preceding it, I didn't even consider 1899 getting the axe.

Typical Netflix....

Leanaunfurled posted...

Do you know what Netflix considers good or bad viewer ratings? Iirc 1899 had 80mil viewers and was charting in multiple countries and all that. I thought it did well and between that and with Dark preceding it, I didn't even consider 1899 getting the axe.

Nobody does. This is made worse by the fact that we barely have visibility of real viewership. Like a Nieslon program got instituted last year but that is still really new and really doesn't have the same value traditional TV ratings have since the primary users of Neilson ratings are advertisers, who want third-party viewership figures. Something less important for streaming services that have either no advertising or advertising with very different contracts.

So not only do we not know what Netflix bases it's decisions on (which I'm guessing involves engagement metrics beyond just volume of minutes streamed) but we really aren't even sure of what the viewership really is.

One other thing to consider, is that we are still facing some of the tail end of the industry wide production delays caused by COVID. Shows take a while to go from agreement to produce to airing on television in general. Then suddenly everything got pushed back because COVID. Finally things air years after the deal and even if it does well it's weird delayed production schedule could make filming additonal seasons tricky. And maybe one show didn't get specifically hit by the issues, but maybe Netflix had other popular shows that did so they are moving things around and reallocating resources and so the show gets screwed anyway.

All in all, the last couple of years have been serious chaos for show production and there are so so many factors that go into the renewal of even seemingly popular shows that it makes renewal decisions functionally opaque.

Wow and I just finished season 1 the other night. That's to bad the twist at the end was intriguing but the show took way to long to get there.

You REALLY got to push through those early episodes of 1899 to get anywhere with that series. You have to pretty much be sick in bed and unable to reach the remote. That's how painfully awful it is. But halfway in the show does pick up. Not a lot. And even then, there's nothing really groundbreaking in the plot. It's just another "we're stuck in a VR sim" show.

Damn, that was quick.

Had it in my queue because the trailer seemed promising - but I guess it doesn't make sense to watch now given the cancellation.

Yeah Im done with Netflix. Ill resub for stranger things and Wednesday (if that miraculously avoids the axe) but thats it.

lilORANG posted...

I'm still bummed about Archive 81

This.

creativerealms posted...

Well at least Sandman is getting more episodes for now.

But also this.

Leanaunfurled posted...

Do you know what Netflix considers good or bad viewer ratings? Iirc 1899 had 80mil viewers and was charting in multiple countries and all that. I thought it did well and between that and with Dark preceding it, I didn't even consider 1899 getting the axe.

No on really knows, but we do know that Netflix started getting axe hungry with its success of Stranger Things season 1. That was the start of all these Netflix shows that barely got 1 season off getting canceled because they couldn't perform as well as Stranger Things. Basically, Stranger Things was such a success it literally equated Netflix to getting a shit ton of new subscribers, something no other Netflix show could ever replicate. Not even Squid Games (which I believe is still Netflix most viewed show, though I could be wrong) equated to more subscribers.

Joining the ranks of Netflix's Cowboy Bebop for only having 1 season.

With Squid Game, when it first launched, so many people in South Korea all tried to watch h it at the same time that Netflix Korea crashed for the entire country. But I don't know how the numbers of everyone in Korea stacks up with the global viewership of Stranger Things

AAAAAHHHH

FUCKING NETFLIX again.

Guessing there's more to it than this, but it sounds like poor business practice to keep cutting off your more popular shows.

Sphyx posted...

Guessing there's more to it than this, but it sounds like poor business practice to keep cutting off your more popular shows.

Especially something with a massive potential from a studio who had one of the biggest hits in netflix history. They should have stuck it out and at least tried season 2

This will end up being a hugely idiotic decision they will regret later

Im not even gonna watch any new Netflix shows

Etna posted...

More like 1984 :(

why do you say that about literally everything without any context whatsoever?

Why do people get surprised that things that dont get watched enough to justify budget, get the axe...?

That's too bad. I was looking forward to seeing where the story would go after the reveal at the end.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Why do people get surprised that things that dont get watched enough to justify budget, get the axe...?

I think 1899 had a lot of fans. It was the next show from the makers of Dark, which is one of the most popular shows in netflix history. There was massive hype for 1899 before it came out

I watched the first 15 minutes and fell asleep.

Autocraticus posted...

I watched the first 15 minutes and fell asleep.

First 15 minutes is not enough to understand the story, you didn't even see the main point of the plot. First 15 minutes is just characters being introduced

The main point of thr show doesn't even happen i think until the end of the first episode

That is like turning on Infinity War but getting bored before Thanos gets to earth

1899 is a mystery show like Lost. You can't expect to see all the secrets right at the start

Dark was the same. The first episode of Dark is just people in a town. The weirdness began in the last scene of the first episode

I think some people have hinted that the percentage of people who watch the entire show within the first 28 days is a major metric.

BearlyWilling posted...

Wednesday (if that miraculously avoids the axe)

It's right behind Stranger Things season 4 in most watched hours. I doubt it's going anywhere.