As KAOS is cancelled, joining The Acolyte, Lockwood & Co, and The Midnight Club on the streaming scrapheap, Ben Travis writes on why audiences can't keep up with streaming TV.
It’s odd that they want us to watch these shows right away. Streaming doesn’t work like that. Wife and I watch an episode, maybe 2 of a show each night. So it takes us weeks to get through a show season. So we have a list of shows to watch. We will watch a show months after it’s been out.
When Stranger Things was a big immediate hit that people binged it broke Netflix. They stopped trying to be HBO and instead treated each show like the lever of a big slot machine.
It’s odd that they want us to watch these shows right away. Streaming doesn’t work like that. Wife and I watch an episode, maybe 2 of a show each night. So it takes us weeks to get through a show season. So we have a list of shows to watch. We will watch a show months after it’s been out.
When Stranger Things was a big immediate hit that people binged it broke Netflix. They stopped trying to be HBO and instead treated each show like the lever of a big slot machine.