I call bullshit. They've had so many even better shows that they dropped after just 1 or 2 seasons to the point of becoming a meme and they have been just fine. I dont think them actually concluding a good show they've had with an actual ending is going to hurt them.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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Bring back GLOW, you idiots!
Or Brand New Cherry Flavour, i wanted to see where that would go
I liked "I'm not ok with this", also "teenage bounty hunters"
They pushed both even when they had already canceled them. Both were compelling enough to warrant more episodes. Nope.
I'm more bitter about "the peripheral" tho.
That was cancelled? I loved the pacing and story. :\
Yeah after like 1 season iirc, it was so new and weird
Feminist agenda in spandex.
It was too glorious to be allowed to live.
I was loving that show.
Stranger things season one was near perfect, but after that it should have been an anthology series
Rip the OA
It didn't hurt them with Bojack and I don't think it will hurt them much here
Speaking of Bojack... If Netflix really was in a bind, they should try and get Tucca & Bertie revived. 😌
I loved Bojack, but T&B never really clicked for me.
They're wildly different shows. T&B was a fun animated sitcom, while Bojack was an exploration of mental health issues and how traumatized and mentally ill people can become the source of their ongoing misery. Bojack hurt, but it hurt because it shone a magnifying glass on your bullshit and the fact that being a good person and a healthy person can sometimes be an uphill battle both ways.
yea, I could see the issue if they were struggling during all those years between seasons of Stranger Things, but pretty sure they've been making tons of money either way lol
Kaos... T_T
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Netflix is pretty much the last, or one of the last, services that releases full seasons of tv shows all at once. It's one of the things they were known for, binge watching shows. And now, with series after series they are abandoning that. Just like they abandoned having a wide selection. Just like they abandoned account sharing. Just like they abandoned having no commercials. Just like they abandoned pretty much everything that initially made them so great. And on top of that, they are notorious for cancelling shows so much so that it's almost foolish to get attached to anything until the series is fully released.
So, Stranger Things ending is hardly the/a problem for Netflix, in my opinion. The series is due for an end, it needs to go, a show based on children like this was always going to have to end eventually. The problem is Netflix has decided to go all in on suckage and selling out and crapification and enshitification. They'll be around for a good long time just based on inertia, but it will never be even a fraction as great as it was in the early days.
releases full seasons
Ill just wait for the full season to be on usenet
This is the way.
Exactly. We haven't had Netflix for like 6 months or more now, and only sometimes miss shows, but not enough to resubscribe.
This season of Stranger Things was 4 episodes released back on the 26th, 3 more episodes on Christmas, and then the final episode on New Year's Eve. I think it's a pretty decent compromise.
No, that is just weekly schedule in chunks.
I will continue to wait for entire seasons to come out before I am willing to watch any show. Fuck this slow drip shit.
if you engage in the online discussions for a show, it can be kinda fun
I don't, and netflix was the only streaming service that I was aware of dropping entire seasons at once that I have subscribed to. It was the primary reason for watching any streaming series for me.
Hearing people say positive things about weekly releases because of the waiting is like watching people enjoy series that were ended on a cliffhanger would be. There's more discussion if it isn't finished!
If you want to binge any show, wait until it's over.
I do that with the Boys. It's a blast coming up with theories and repeating cool parts all at the same time
I'm sure they'll keep milking it. I can imagine:
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Stranger Things: Origins - a 1960's or 70's prequel movie where strange things also happen at that same lab in this small Indiana town.
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Stranger Things: The Animation - a side story featuring the same cast as the original series, but now animated so no one finds it weird that these high schoolers are beginning to get crow's feet.
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Stranger Things: Sequel Series - a new series that takes place in the 90's to capitalize on Millennial nostalgia instead of Gen X nostalgia. Features a cameo by at least one member of the original cast of kids, who is somehow still too old because there's only 10 years between the 80's and 90's and it took longer than that just to finish the original series. Canceled after 1.5 seasons.
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Weirder Events - Amazon/Disney/Paramount/whoever throws a bagillon dollars at the Duffer Brothers to make a new original series for them. They can't reuse the IP of Stranger Things, but the series they make is basically a spiritual successor that does nothing but tread all the same ground. Canceled after 2 seasons.
They tried to spin-off in the second season (episode 7). And while looking for that episode apparently they're working on an animated spin-off now.
The biggest issue with stranger things is the people that are like we got to watch the kids grow up. Look at them now. They completely ignore that the show has happened over a 3 year period of time. Season 4 was the 9th grade. Show started in the 7th grade.
Isn't that isn't what ninth graders look like?? /s
I'm sure they're working on AI derived script with AI actors who will all be smashed together in an AI film production that will pump out endless amounts of TV series for years to come.
Whether or not they'll be any good is anyone's guess .... they're just going to be a shit ton of them.
Get ready for the AI TV shotgun approach ... we're going to get blasted with so much shit, we won't know what hit us.
We already get blasted with an endless stream of shit. We just don't notice most of it. Nothing much will change.
That's the problem ... we're already being hosed with it .. they're just going to turn up the volume and hose us even more
Netflix is fine. So is Stranger Things. The article fails to mention the animated series that will be milked well beyond its welcome.
I suppose the real question is what will be the next big Netlix show.
Another problem is all the ads that are for multiple things.
I'd kinda forgotten about Stranger Things coming back until the avalanche of ads for other products made me sick of it again.
That advertising strategy is toxic.