Welcome to a weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough on a recent weekend long reads segment. I recommended a piece by the Virges

Julia Alexander asking whether or not Netflix's recommendation algorithms were

broken or maybe just borked. We're going to talk a bit about that

today but also since Julia is on the streaming wars beat at The

Verge you know how much I love to talk about the streaming wars and we are right about at the point

Where the battle is going to be joined in earnest

So more about that please enjoy

I don't follow the actually I don't follow Netflix closely enough to to know this but somehow a bunch of shows got canceled lately that got on my radar.

Like I guess they must have been high profile shows and I would have to imagine that this happens all the time but somehow it feels different like has there been a bunch of shows that have

gotten the acts lately? I think we're seeing a couple of things happening

we're seeing a couple so the first thing that happened is two shows that were beloved by

bands and critics called Tuka and Bertie and the OA toka and Bertie being an

animated adult series and the O. A.A kind of being a sci-fi weird niche show got cancelled the first

two-converi after one, the OA after two seasons.

And we're seeing, I would use the word outrage,

which I don't usually use, about their cancellations.

The interesting thing about this is that canceling shows us to one or two seasons is not particularly new for traditional broadcast television.

This happens quite often, but the difference is that up until a couple of years ago Netflix wasn't really cancelling anything.

Netflix was increasing its spending size on content and the idea was just buy, buy, buy, and

they'll live on the platform and we can build our own library.

So I think what we're seeing happen is people realizing that,

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