First Kill: Could Netflix's Cancelation Strategy Cancel The Company?

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At this point, it's hard to find any movie or TV fan who doesn't have an ax to grind against the enduringly powerful Netflix service. Beyond the transcendent problems such as increased costs, anti-consumer practices, and rampant transphobia, the streaming service is failing at its primary purpose by canceling shows people love.

Thanks to the oversaturation of the market, the bread and butter of any streaming service is its original programming. A strong library of classic films might keep people entertained, but most people aren't signing up to watch even their best films. That's why a streaming service needs to be smart about which pieces of original content make it to the service and which stick around.

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First Kill dropped on Netflix in June. It's good, but not great. Some of the writing is a bit on the nose, the story doesn't hang together 100%, and it clearly suffered from budgetary restraints. Its central element is a sincere and believable romance between a pair of well-realized characters. The show is novel in its representation, featuring a woman of color in the leading role and a relationship between two young ladies. The show is a mixed bag, leaning on the good, and it was clearly made with the intention of getting a second season. Without wishing to spoil, it ends on an unresolved cliffhanger that escalates the scope of the story as it heads into its theoretical second season. It also leaves its main characters in a deeply unsatisfying emotional position. This theoretical resolution and catharsis will not be coming, because the show was canceled just under two months after release.

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