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@miljko Agree with most but I wouldn't go as far as to say:
Much of highly lauded AppleTV+ content would also be here, Disney+ as well, Amazon Prime Video goes without saying.
Compared to Netflix, these have had some great shows - Mrs.Maisel, Fleabag, For All Mankind, The Morning Show, Andor, Wanda Vision, etc. Of course, HBO still produces some gems like Hacks, Last of Us, etc.
But yes, I agree, something about movies compared to TV shows is what these streamers can't get right. Maybe it's a different culture, expectation-setting, etc. It definitely can't be the budget. As much as Warner Bros suck, I don't see the streamers making a Mad Max Fury Road anytime soon.
@pratik Oh, without a doubt. Netflix is at the very extreme corner of that quadrant, and everything they made (except for some of the animation work like Arcane and Castlevania) would be there. Other streamers have a better track record.
It's the culture and obsession over timelines and predictability, I think. Good work can take time — The Sopranos had very long breaks between seasons — and you can't pay for that. I imagine corporate overlords want everything to be as per the initial spreadsheet (or — shudder — PowerPoint). The other component is that having too big of a budget may be harmful! Constraints can be good for creativity (see A24 and Bloomfield productions)