discussion Old TV shows being watched more than contemporary streaming series

[JoeAg]

if this is about The Mod Squad I'm still trying to figure out if it's on streaming and I need it NOW

[Leptine]

Too many new mediocre tv shows around that go downhill after one season if not cancelled with endless timing of renew, old tv shows are like comfort good, you can't go wrong.

[єѕℓαм]

Nostalgia + actual episodes to watch 

not this 8 ep a season then cancel it tf

[Sabrina Carpenter]

these new shows are just not rewatch-able

 

i’d rather rewatch Gossip Girl all over again for the 4th time 

[Happylittlepunk]

Companies like Netflix don’t invest in there own shows longer than 2 or 3 seasons. Something that people keep forgetting a lot of these sitcoms took then a while built up a large audience. The problem is Netflix isn’t willing to wait long to built a loyal fanbase for there original shows. Netflix and other streaming services need to focus on quality again and being patient serving content to consumers. Not everything is going to go mega viral with every new season. 

[Eternium]

People will typically put their comfort shows on in the background when they go to sleep and your streaming service continues to play them. It’s no different than the White Noise Spotify sounds - “Clean Baby Sleep White Noise” has 540M streams.

[Cameltoe Chariot]

5 hours ago, ImpressMeMuch said:

 

[LittleStarmen]

Well theres just much more content in old shows

 

 

the last big phenomenom i cam remrber qas Game of Thrones that was destroyed by its last season

[Domination]

As our attention is consumed by nothing more than what is called “content” (read: slop), the need to constantly churn out new shows and axe them before they even get going started has become the norm. 

[LittleStarmen]

47 minutes ago, Sabrina Carpenter said:

these new shows are just not rewatch-able

 

i’d rather rewatch Gossip Girl all over again for the 4th time 

There is something to that i cant pin point

 

the new shows are much more forced and the cast is less interesting

[Bubble Tea]

Stuck culture. Culture is Stuck (beehiiv.com)

 

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Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, and regurgitated back at us. The algorithms cut off the possibility of new discovery.

 

[KingWitch]

Stop making people wait 2+ years for a new new season of a show,I don't care how good it is by that time most people will have moved on with their lives .

 

Like I was a big fan of Invincible on Prime but the 2nd season took 3 years by which time I was no longer that invested and had moved on

[LittleStarmen]

7 minutes ago, KingWitch said:

Stop making people wait 2+ years for a new new season of a show,I don't care how good it is by that time most people will have moved on with their lives .

 

Like I was a big fan of Invincible on Prime but the 2nd season took 3 years by which time I was no longer that invested and had moved on

its taking too long when u can finish highschool betwen seaosn 1 and 2 of euphoria

[chiliam]

streaming make old media much more accessible, it`s also true with music

so we are getting to a point people prefer to consume old media which already quality proven than to consume current media

[Daddy]

7 hours ago, KingWitch said:

Like I was a big fan of Invincible on Prime but the 2nd season took 3 years by which time I was no longer that invested and had moved on

Omg same! Made it through 2 episodes of the 2nd season and abandoned. 

[rzal]

14 hours ago, stupidjock said:

This can’t be right. What about Crazy Ex Girlfriend? It’s a very cool modern show that wasn’t cancelled 

It was a The CW show. Netflix just bought the rights to it. 

[Exodus]

Suits is peaking right now. Look at all the Super Bowl ads. Just goes to show the quality of shows if they were just on bigger networks.

[Harmonizer]

Because they are trying to make TV Shows into movies and people lose interest. No one cares about shows anymore because there is too much content and there is no character development anymore.

[Jglj]

The sheer amount of content of old series is one reason. One season of Grey's Anatomy, Friends, etc. will have 22 to 25 episodes, and they were churning them out every year. While today you get 6-10 episodes and a season every 2 to 4 years.

 

Look at Stranger Things which started in 2016 and will finish in 2025, that's 9 years for 5 seasons and will get around 42 episodes.

 

It's not surprising people will stream older shows just because they can stream the new season of a new show in a day or two, and then keep watching the billions of hours of old TV.

[Capris Groove]

I absolutely believe that the world fundamentally shifted after about 2016, and people now long for the world before that. And arguably before smartphones.

 

There was a monoculture then and human beings, as social creatures, ultimately want the collective experience more than the individual one.

 

Which is why the TV shows/films from back then persist much more than the new ones. Even the so-called highly acclaimed media of today is forgotten after 6 months.

 

I don't think it's just nostalgia the way that fashion comes back every 20 years or whatever. I think it's the divide between pre-smart phone and post-smart phone life, and that pre-smart phone entertainment will continue to endure.