Airports always have an air of possibility; Wherever you look at, people do something new, visit the house or embark on a new chapter. Moments of transport in different entertainment supports have all this uncertainty in their gutters and move the spectator in a new head space to consider what has been and what is to come. A program like “How To Die alone” has made a double right in this regard, because the Hulu series by Natasha Rothwell has shown how the television has increased during the last half-receiver, and how far the support must go. The streamer decided to cancel the series, citing a weak audience, not recognizing the potential when he looked at them.
“How to die alone” is a comedy / drama with Natasha Rothwell as Mel, an airport worker who has been in emotional limbo for some time and wakes up in the possibility that her life is more than simply facing John F. Kennedy airport in New York, New York. She has friends like Rory, played by a delicious Conrad Ricamora, romantic tangles like her ex, Alex (depicted by Jocko Sims as a major source of her uncertainty), and hopes that there could be more in this world than she is not aware. Hulu broadcast the eight episodes of the first and only season last year, and unfortunately, made the decision not to continue more.
Variety reported that “how to die alone” would not be renewed, and even the star of the series was taken by the decision. Rothwell wrote a statement for the publication which presented how it was “shocked, the heart broken and frankly disconcerted” by the move to leave the trip of Mel unfinished. In other comments, the actress also underlined the critical reception of the series, and her argument that the show was “a critical, creative and award -winning success”, but a precise reading of the reaction of so many people to the series after giving a chance on Hulu. It is quite difficult for a show to obtain a 91% note on Rotten Tomatoes in this crowded media environment, and many programs that operate longer do not reach this high water brand.
How to die alone was canceled due to a weak hearing
Elsewhere in the reporting variety, a source close to onyx collective, the production company which made “How to die alone”, argued that the series simply did not obtain audience strong enough to justify a season 2. It is an interesting argument when the data is either nonexistent for creatives or external observers to see themselves, and the apparent weight on the popular scales Ruting, figures do not require for these programs or films. It is difficult not to have a sour taste in your mouth like Rothwell made, after all, the swimming market absolutely in programs that have the impression of watching them before, and “how to die alone” was a concept that seemed legitimately fresh.
Collective Onyx was created by Disney to bring stories of people of color and under-represented populations on the market, even if the landscape is transformed to make this task increasingly difficult. Honestly, shouldn’t the goal be to produce thoughtful and interesting shows like “how to die alone” rather than having to choose their spots so carefully? One thing that observers have seen in the streaming era is that there is a real success of backend success once a show has existed long enough to collect a larger fans base.
Under the underlying of this idea is the fact that these viewers must have the kind of time and space to accumulate by themselves, and the studios at the center of this story will rarely spend the kind of advertising dollars to inform viewers that a show like “how to die alone” even exists. So, this starts a feedback loop of a self-fulfilling prophecy, the studios being able to cancel the emissions because they “did not obtain fairly large viewers”, companies do not have to assume responsibility, frankly and pitiful and everything cannot be pushed against their own programming, because there are so many things on these services and everything cannot be pushed.
How to die alone has admirably shown the possibility of what television could be
“How to die alone” is currently being shopped to other streamers and studios because this first season exists as a kind of concept proof for what a season 2 could be, given the opportunity to flourish. Natasha Rothwell hopes that the series will continue to continue, and it should feel like that, because so many fans only “how to die alone” when the decision was taken to shoot the Ripcord on the series. A luminous point exists in the fact that there are so many “streaming era” shows that have found life on a service or a channel different from what they started; Hope really seems in eternal spring.
More than anything, however, I wonder how long the industry can allow itself to continue to ignore the new ideas in favor of the search for the next great thing and failure because attention among a dispersed audience is finished. New programs are literally in competition with “Stranger Things” to be the next “Stranger Things” (something like “Paradise” in Hulu’s programs) to say nothing that they are also confronted with “Fortnite”, the cinematographic version of the film of “Minecraft”, and all that could be largely unpredictable from the basis of the youth of the consumer of media for young people. There is no shame in being a little show that tells a relatable story for communities that are not appropriately served; In fact, there is a lot of freedom, and I dare say that the possibility remains to be explored.
