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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9067124" data-attributes="member: 7023840">No. It isn't. Again, this has been a major topic in terms of the Business.I don't know how many more times this has to be said. Prime is considered an also-ran, despite the high subscriber numbers, because of flops like this show. You might say, "Well, some people watched it. It can't be a flop!"I don't think you fully comprehend what the ROI is. It cost $90 million an episode. For a point of comparison- do you know Foundation? The super expensive Apple+ show set in space? It cost $45 million - for the entire season.That's right. Every single episode of this show (which had eight episodes) cost more than the entire budget of almost every show ever made. Every episode costs more than a season of the Witcher. More than a season of Wednesday. More than a season of The Boys. More than a season of Umbrella Academy. More than a season of Ozark.In fact, every single episode of this show costs more than the entire series runs of most hit shows on other networks. When you are spending that kind of money, you need a lot better return. It's just not sustainable.If you have any actual evidence of your assertion- that this type of spending on content is, in fact, not just some kind of new-fangled Underwear Gnome scheme, provide it. Because it's this type of spending on content that led to all the retrenchment we've been seeing this year, starting with Zaslav and continuing on with the strike(s) - which the studios haven't avoided because they will allow them to get out of some of the onerous content contract they signed.Again, the repeated assertion that a show that is, by far, the most expensive show in the history of television is somehow a success for Prime despite the fairly well-known and well-reported evidence otherwise - and not in clickbait articles, but in the industry press, is somewhat ... odd. Perhaps Bezos and co. are playing 4-D Chess, or perhaps they overspent for subpar content. I'll put my money down on overspending, given that it seems to be part and parcel with the structural issues that Prime has had.</blockquote>

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