to make some glorified cheap knockoff without any of the original vision?
no thanks.
Comment on 'Mindhunter' Is Dead — So Stop Asking David Fincher About It!
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, well fuck you for not even handing it off to someone who could pick it up and run with it if you can’t be bothered.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 year ago
habanhero@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Can’t exactly blame Fincher for that outcome. Jonathan said as much, Mindhunters is Fincher. The creator of the show is part of its DNA. Would you really want Fincher to hand it off to someone and potentially pull a Dexter or GOT S8?
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s like Netflix has never heard of a “loss leader”. People don’t pay exorbitant subscription fees to watch the latest Project Runway knock off show.
I also find it difficult to believe it’s more expensive than the average TV drama, considering Fincher already has a development deal with the network.
habanhero@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Netflix is notorious for spending a metric fuckton of money to the point that a great deal of their shows are “loss leaders” (and usually followed by prompt cancellation). Your “Project Runway” comparison is irrelevant - although Netflix has plenty of trash reality shows, by no means that’s all they do.
I don’t have a good sense whether Mindhunters would be expensive or not, but my anecdotal experience says it’s not a mainstream show. It’s just not the hits like Stranger Things, Wednesday or perhaps the One Piece that Netflix needs to survive. 1899 is another victim of the Netflix gambles - an extremely stylish and intricate show that died a premature death, even though it launched to great reception.
nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but Fincher is very particular about his shots, and as such there is a metric shit-tonne of CGI in both seasons of mindhunter. There's a few videos on youtube that demonstrate it. Again, I don't think that would inherently make it way more expensive than the typical, but his vision comes with a price tag.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still blame Fincher for using season 2 to set up season 3 and then give us nothing. Given Netflix’s track record and Fincher not being some noob, he should have made sure each season had no whole-story dangling threads. I would settle for a short story tying it up at this point, he could do that.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 year ago
This should be standard practice when a show is cancelled prematurely: give it a movie to wrap it up. That at least gives your show the reputation of being finished so that others might actually want to watch it in the future.
habanhero@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s a great thought, but if Netflix cancelled a show for “poor viewership performance”, does it make sense to expect them to fund an entire movie instead?
habanhero@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I disagree - I prefer that Fincher do his job, tell the story the best way possible instead of trying to force everything into a single season or two for “closure”.
I also think the only reason why you feel this way is BECAUSE Fincher took his time to make two fantastic seasons and a killer cliffhanger. Had he not done that, folks here would probably be complaining about how Mindhunters is a rushed, crammed, underachieving show and not of the quality that we come to expect of Fincher. It would be a completely different show and not the premise we are basing the discussion on.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m glad it’s a quality show but it’s not quality because of the season 2 subplot that ended up going nowhere and leaving viewers dissatisfied. That’s my problem with it. He’s in the business long enough and Netflix have this pattern long enough that he should know better than to do that.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s his alone, so don’t blame him.
What?
habanhero@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Verbatim quote from the article. What do you think it means?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And the budget was a curse placed on him by a witch?
The man can’t be intrinsic to the show, and “part of its DNA,” and also absolved of the concrete reasons it got the usual Netflix treatment of two seasons and stone dead.