#They won't notice that “Hey! We've got 3 missing this Season compared to 1 and 2!”
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I've just discovered Netflix utterly failed to convey that "The Witcher" was split into two parts to their most casual viewers...
Netflix, if you're reading this, please take note...
Those two-parters releases are confusing as Hell!
Casual viewers - like my friend that doesn't spend hours reading news and articles of TV shows - apparently genuinely believed that Season 3 episode 5 of "The Witcher" was the series finale, and that the season ended on a frakking cliffhanger!
She's staying over at our house for a couple of days, and I asked her if she'd finished watching the show (because I wanted to invite her to watch Episode 6 with us) and she answered "Oh yeah! I watched all 3 Seasons!"
She had NO IDEA there were three new episodes (6-7-8) to Season 3!
I only ended up suspecting something was off because I knew the last few days had been crazy busy for her, she temporarily moved in with us on July 30th, and I went "no way she'd have had time watching the Season's finale between the 27th and the 30th".
Casual viewers (that boost viewership, yet aren't "superfans" that follow "everything Witcher") won't necessarily notice that the "new episodes" on The Witcher's TV show's thumbnail don't refer to the new season that has "already been fully released" in their minds!
They've already moved on to new stuff to watch!
And most will skip the credits/close the TV when they're done watching, so they didn't get that preview!
You not only find yourself with some people not interested in watching the show before all episodes are available (lowering part 1 ratings), but with some people skipping part 2, because they didn't notice the show had been split in two parts in the first place!
#Netflix#The Witcher#The Witcher Netflix#2 parts releases fails...#Seriously when a Season is 20 episodes long I get it!#But 8 episodes...#Casual viewers don't typically care about episode numbers and expect them to be inconsistent on Netflix anyway!#They won't notice that “Hey! We've got 3 missing this Season compared to 1 and 2!”#They are won't even bother to go check!#They'll be casually entertained and allowed to relax after their day at work#Accept the cliffhanger#Then move to the next show on the next day!#Creating even more instability with a show that's losing its main actor might not have been the best business strategy...
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