They're making room for LOTR, obviously.Amazon is such a weird streaming platform. Seems like they cancel the vast majority of their shows. Hard to gain any traction that way.
They're making room for LOTR, obviously.Amazon is such a weird streaming platform. Seems like they cancel the vast majority of their shows. Hard to gain any traction that way.
lol at The Romanoffs. How much did Amazon spend on that, and how much buzz did they end up getting?
Finishing up a movie for Netflix.BTW, is Alan Yang (the creator of Forever) working on something else?
considering Sicario 2 touched that nerve a bit and the shit it (mostly deservedly) got for it... basically whatr I'm saying is that there will be thinkpieces.
It reviewed okay but way worse than the first.Wait, I thought Sicario 2 reviewed well and died an early death. No?
Amazon is such a weird streaming platform. Seems like they cancel the vast majority of their shows. Hard to gain any traction that way.
It just doesnt seem to have much cache mainstream wise.I would love to know some of their viewing numbers, I have a feeling most Amazon Originals aren't getting big viewer numbers (especially since they really seem to be looking for the next big hit) and wouldn't be surprised if the division is kinda a financial drain relative to viewer engagement.
Oh nice! Did not know. Looking forward to it then.
I'm not surprised that Amazon can't get any traction since there's just simply too much streaming stuff to watch. I'm a total TV junkie and I can't even keep up. The Boys and OITNB dropped yesterday, Dear White People next week, then GLOW, then Mindhunter.
I haven't even touched Good Omens yet either. The only thing I've actually made it through recently is Veronica Mars.
They kind of are because Netflix is the king and Hulu is mainly used for whatever shows aired the night before.Yeah I think that's part of it. A show turning into a big hit is something that can be hard to do with a streaming only release (and probably has to happen somewhat naturally). I imagine Netflix and Hulu are more of a default choice for watching stuff (in the US anyway) than Amazon.
I swear a big reason why Amazon Prime falters in streaming is their UI sucks and they have weird ways of listing shows. A new show can release and be really hard to find. Like Refn's show was absolutely buried that first weekend.
Yeah, their UI is total garbage on every device I can access it. On my TV I can't get the closed captions to work, on my console I can. It's slow, it's badly designed, no profiles even though households can share Prime, huge missed opportunity. This is also the company who has my active cell phone number attached to an old Amazon account they deleted while trying to get the phone number moved across, and after hours trying to get it sorted they admitted they could not, which means I can't enter my number to my active Amazon account because it thinks it's in use, even though that account was deleted by Amazon. One of the biggest tech companies in the world they say. It's so bad I tend to forget it exists.I swear a big reason why Amazon Prime falters in streaming is their UI sucks and they have weird ways of listing shows. A new show can release and be really hard to find. Like Refn's show was absolutely buried that first weekend.
This is true.I swear a big reason why Amazon Prime falters in streaming is their UI sucks and they have weird ways of listing shows. A new show can release and be really hard to find. Like Refn's show was absolutely buried that first weekend.
It's probably their attempt at curbing account sharing since the "proper" way to do it, as you said, is to add your household to your Prime account and then have them log in under themselves.It also really annoys me that you can't have profiles in the same way you can on Netflix or Hulu. I think you kind of can by having those people on your prime account and logged in with their email but come on Amazon it's a basic feature that should have been added a long time ago.
Didn't realize they brought LOTR back to NZ again. Would have been interested to see different locations as well. The series would do well to move in a different direction from the films due to expectations. The only part I would imagine would be similar is if they show the end of the second age in which I could imagine a crossover in aesthetics and designs.
Given the Terror is releasing next month, is it going to be released all at once on amazon or is it going to be similar as last year doing weekly?
I swear a big reason why Amazon Prime falters in streaming is their UI sucks and they have weird ways of listing shows. A new show can release and be really hard to find. Like Refn's show was absolutely buried that first weekend.
I'm baffled that the UHD versions of shows need to be searched for and selected separately. Why would they do that?
I was referring to articles like these:Wait, I thought Sicario 2 reviewed well and died an early death. No?
Platform, which starts filming today, is an anthological series that uses the boldest issues of our times as a jumping-off point to tell singular, character-driven stories about the world we live in today.
Oooh, a show about characters and issues!
I feel kiiiiiiiind of over anthology series at this point, especially for ones with such basic sounding premises. The cast is great though.
Critical reviews don't matter, but they want people talking about it. And that's far less likely if you don't give critics anything to hype up. This is a bit of a mystery to me because I can't imagine it's a trainwreck given they had the same team from the first season working on it.I mean, critical reviews probably don't matter to the success of most Netflix series. They probably have the metrics to prove this.
I mean, critical reviews probably don't matter to the success of most Netflix series. They probably have the metrics to prove this.
I feel kiiiiiiiind of over anthology series at this point, especially for ones with such basic sounding premises. The cast is great though.