This topic is more in @welh640 area of expertise, but I am also interested, as an old guy who was around in the time of steam driven televisions, in the business of streaming. I too wonder why some productions appear weekly and others are broken up or dumped all at once and why streaming companies limit their releases to certain markets. I am also curious why illegal streaming sites think that a certain Mr. H****, whose internet history is mostly spent on Dramabeans, academic library sites, and searching recipes, and who is looking to watch a kdrama featuring a feminist take on the advertising industry, would actually click on ads for porn.
I saw this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-much-more-netflix-can-the-world-absorb-bela-bajaria focusing on one of the decision makers for global television shows, and it kind of fit the sense I already had, that while there are a lot of decision making algorithms in use, a great deal of these choices are made somewhat ad hoc and on instinct. Not that Ms. Bajaria isn’t obviously really talented, smart, and driven, with a strong resume of global successes under her belt-just that there seems to be a whole lot of seat of the pants decision making. (to continue the trousers metaphor.)
As an example, near the end of the article, Ms. Bajaria Is discussing a remake of Crash Landing on You—CLOY. Apparently, it didn’t do as well in the U.S. market, given its Korean specific circumstances, so there are some efforts underway to remake it.
Now, I hope it works out for the Korean writer Park Ji-eun, who has a distinguished resume, but she’s really going to have to stretch to make this one work. Accidently hang gliding from Florida to Cuba would be an obvious scenario, but it would have to be a geriatric romance, with an 80 something Florida retiree landing into the arms of a retired Castro general who turned out to be the son of Che Guevara.
Alternatively, a younger woman could hang glide from the U.S. into Canada, where she obviously would not be politically repressed, but could still be disoriented by crashing into a horse riding policeman in a red coat, whose English dialect was impossible to understand, with its “oots” and “ehs.” The Mountie could introduce her to folksy Canadian village people who eat strange dishes like fried potatoes covered with a gloppy gravy.
Ultimately, though, since it sounded like Netflix was hoping to make the circumstances less country specific, I think a fantasy would work best, where an actress starring in a 60 episode weekender about to be forced to marry her brother’s wife brother setting off a nasty chaebol succession fight leading to a kim-chee slap from her stepmother mysteriously drops into an 8 episode thriller split into two parts where she violently avenges her sexual molestation by a policeman but falls in love with the hostile detective leading the investigation. It could be called “Crash Landing On (the) Netflix…
Open Thread #795
Source: Buzz Pinay Daily
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