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“Peripheral” canceled at Amazon (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by reddig33@lemmy.world to c/television@lemmy.world

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I’m amazed season two wasn’t already finished before the strike. The last episode aired in 2022. What were they doing all year?

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[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago (14 children)

It was a great first season but I knew it would get cancelled.

If a show takes even the slightest bit of concentration to follow, and you can't absorb the plot whilst playing with your phone, then it fails. Not many viewers are looking for a complex, intelligent story...they just want to be double distracted from their lives.

[–] EGG_CREAM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Life is hard. I'm the end, TV is primarily a distraction from that. Is that so bad?

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My gripe isn't really with vapid, simplistic TV shows; you can just choose not to watch that. It's that the current model of streaming services funding production seems to kill anything that doesn't fit that mold.

[–] EGG_CREAM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I feel like that's especially true for Netflix right now, in my opinion. I'm really enjoying some of the Apple TV shows right now, like Silo and Severance, that are a bit "meatier," intellectually speaking.

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