Re: [NEWS] "The Recruit" cancelled

On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 19:55:25 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2025-03-06 06:36:41 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:
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On 3/5/25 9:17 PM, Your Name wrote:
 

   'The Recruit' Canceled at Netflix After Two Seasons
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   Netflix's espionage dramedy "The Recruit" has been canceled
   after two seasons with the streamer, Variety has confirmed.
 
   Colton Dunn, who played former CIA operative Lester Kitchens
   on the show, took to Threads Wednesday night to announce the
   news.
 
   "'The Recruit' has been cancelled y'all," he wrote. "Such a
   bummer. I'll share some pics and fun memories on IG but just
   wanted you to hear it from me. Thanks if you watched. I'm
   AVAILABLE NOW! Hire me for you tv story!!"
 
   "The Recruit" ran for 14 episodes across two seasons, first
   premiering in December of 2022. According to the official
   logline, the series followed, "Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo),
   a CIA lawyer [who] becomes involved in massive international
   conflicts with dangerous parties after an asset tries to
   expose her relationship to the agency."

 
This surprises me, as this series has seemed to be better received than
"The Night Agent", the latter of which has been roundly roasted for its
second season.
 
But it proves, once again, that Netflix cannot be trusted with its
original TV series, as Netflix inevitably cancels them (esp. the better
ones) too soon.

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One possible explanation: Someone recently said that streaming services
are only interested in gaining new subscribers, not those already
subscribing. A new show will (supposedly / hopefully) pull in new
subscribers wanting to watch it, but once it gets past a seaosn or two,
it no longer attracts new subscribers, so teh streaming service cancels
it and brings in something else new to again attempt to pull in more
new subscribers.
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I can see why the morons in management would believe that should work,
but for those of us with actual brains, it's easy to see it is a
incredibly silly way of doing anything and way it (and many streaming
services) fail miserably.
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They may believe that but it is only going to drive away the long term
subscribers because they won't have any reason to stick around. If
Netflix comes up with a new show that they like they may subscribe
again or not. After all, cable companies long ago found out just how
hard it is to gain a new customer versus holding on to an existing
customer which is why they work hard to avoid that churn.