Outer Range cancelled ... screw you Prime

[tafkaga]

I couldn't find a thread for this. 

Did anyone else watch Outer Range on Prime? 

Interesting scifi show with Josh Brolin.  From all I heard, it had a strong following and good ratings, but Prime cancelled after 2 seasons with like a zillion unanswered questions. 

They did the same thing with The Wilds, another show I was into a couple years ago, cancelled after 2 seasons. 

It's like Prime doesn't even want us to bother getting into their original shows.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

The problem with Amazon seems to be if a show isn't doing numbers on par with Reacher, The Boys, Fallout, Rings of Power, or Invincible, it's at risk. There just doesn't seem to be any room for shows that are "just" moderately successful.

[G✇JI☈A]

Prime has the worse social media.. They would spend most their time posting memes that would have little to do with their content. Rarely hype a show/movie once it’s out there. They did not just want hit shows, they wanted viral hit shows

I do remember one time the twitter social media got salty. In was 2020 and one thing they really hyped up was “Catty Supermodel Reality Show #255445”, they really really wanted it to go viral .. but the same week it came out, Netflix released Tiger King and everyone was talking about that, and Prime’s socials actually got bitter about it, posting things like “sick of the tiger king, watch our model show”.

[tafkaga]

Jul 9, 2024 17:23:40 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

The problem with Amazon seems to be if a show isn't doing numbers on par with Reacher, The Boys, Fallout, Rings of Power, or Invincible, it's at risk. There just doesn't seem to be any room for shows that are "just" moderately successful.

I could understand that if we were talking about big budget projects, but Outer Range was about ranchers in a rural setting and The Wilds was set on a deserted island with mostly unknown actors.  The overhead couldn't have been that much.  They could at least have the courtesy to shoot one more season just to wrap up loose ends and not leave the audience feeling like we had our time wasted.