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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 180 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Do you have a source other than...like..fuckin tiktok?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It was taken off like a year ago, maybe longer. The last season bombed so they took the whole thing down to avoid paying residuals. Think it was even before the merger.

Which just highlights how stupid the system is. Pay residuals, but pay them based on amount of viewing hours. If no one watches a show, there's still no reason to remove it.

Currently an expensive show no one watches can just bleed money.

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

Man, everything after season 1 was pretty bad lmao

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know I heard S2 was bad, so I didn't watch it when it came out but planned on eventually giving it a chance, but this thread and specifically this post just convinced me to never watch it and just keep the memory of Westworld being good in my head lol.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, comparatively season 2 is worse than the first one but not a massive shitshow. Season 3 though, oh fucking boy. I'd say maybe watch the second season just for some sort of closure, but then definitely stop!

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Duly noted, ty.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say season 2 at least kept close to the original premise of being a mind fuck in the park (albeit many parks this time). It wasn't as good as the original but I don't think it's as bad as the other guy says. After that though the whole tone changed so much in S3 that I didn't even bother with S4.

[–] Littleleeroy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Season 4 was better than 3 IMO. I really enjoyed it whereas S3 I struggled to sit through. It carried the story forward and pretty much finished the show. I felt closure after watching S4 and satisfied with the ending (if you ignore the last 2 minutes where they try to set up an unneeded 5th season.)

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Gotta love Hollywood accounting.

[–] JelloBrains@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

WB Discovery is still getting their cut from Westworld, Raised by Wolves, and a dozen or so others by licensing it out to The Roku Channel streaming service of all things. So those actors went from getting scraps from HBO Max to probably next to nothing from Roku. I don't know if that's worse than having the content completely removed or not considering Roku is like Pluto TV and airs things more like cable.

[–] Amazed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like GoT should be taken down for the same reason then. But then I realize that maybe the last two seasons were still successful on some level.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just verified on the Max app

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wonder if Crave still has it in Canada.

Edit: It's still there for me.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's not on my fuckin TV anymore. Had to pirate the last couple of seasons.

[–] wviana 0 points 1 year ago

My wife ask me same thing. At least here in my country I couldn't find it.