I was planning to get around to watching The Brothers Sun, on Netflix, eventually. It wasn’t releasing an episode per week, like Apple or Disney+ is known for. They were all there. The trailer looked intriguing, the same as, say, Beef, but it just wasn’t super high on my list of priorities. Now, just two months after the show came out, I find that the series has been cancelled. From what I read, like comments from fans etc., it doesn’t have an ending either. Fans have complained that they invested 8 hours into this show, and now there will never be more, and the story will never be finished. They ask, why bother watching new shows on Netflix?

I don’t often watch new shows on Netflix. Sure, something like Avatar: The Last Airbender couldn’t be passed up, but most things I can wait, or miss entirely without much concern, I am certain I made the right choice in sticking to older shows, which are done, and which will be full screen, full color, and look great. Too many of these modern shows are super widescreen and so dark you can barely see anything. I am so sick of 2.35:1 “Cinemascope” content for television, that I won’t even watch the trailer for such a show. I don’t have an awesome home theater, and even if I did, I don’t want to watch something with massive black bars on my TV.

I missed a lot of great older shows over the last 16 years, while traveling and being busy. There is plenty of content out there for me to watch. On top of that, I love Korean, Chinese and Japanese dramas. They tend to make shows that are a set number of episodes and they’re done. That is, of course, not counting the shows made by Netflix, which they are already trying to turn into Americanized content. I basically don’t need to jump on every new release that comes out. I can wait to see if a show is going to survive, or go the way of The Brother’s Sun, before I invest my time in it.

I am almost finished with the 1977 series The Incredible Hulk. After that, I will likely return to Netflix to watch The King: Eternal Monarch, a slightly older (I think 2020) Korean drama that I know is full screen and boasts beautiful colors. After that, I might watch the live action Mob Psycho 100.