Or killed by a serial killer (although if that’s the only way to get rid of her...)

They might wanna lose Debbie next season. But I can see where they can get five very good seasons out of this material.

After having seen all the episodes, it seems like a vanilla surface with some very disturbing currents, having to do with the investigators (especially Holden), not the killers, who I expect to be disturbing. I’m sold but eight mere episodes just seem like setup to me. I’ll be back to chat when they get to the…

Netflix should have 100% accuracy in looking at their own data. They can tell when I watch the Mindhunter preview on September 22 at 3:45pm, add the show to my queue exactly 27.45.21 minutes after it dropped, click on Mindhunter episode 2 on October 16 at 9:55:32, stop it at 10:12:13 to go get a snack, come back and…

Here’s what it will do. Let’s say BroadChurch is a lot more popular on Amazon than Amazon is letting on. The makers of BroadChurch will leverage more money from Amazon, leaving them less money for other shows.

This won’t have any impact on the fact that Netflix can’t afford to license everything in creation. In fact, it will make the situation worse by giving content providers that Netflix does license or pay for shows from, leverage to get more money from Netflix (assuming their shows are popular) which gives Netflix less…

Hmm. So my Roku TV on wifi is mobile then. That makes the Nielsens data even worse. They can’t measure a large proportion of in-home viewing in addition to all the viewing on cell phones during commutes and whatnot.

Also will not measure viewing outside the US. If a show is wildly popular everywhere but the US, will Netflix renew it? Why not, money is money. Nielsens really isn’t providing anything of value here. Except when the data leaks out, it will be fun for all of us to scream about.

How is this data going to be collected? Will it be voluntary opt-in (I sure hope so). And why would anyone agree to participate, considering that the way the data will be used is for content providers to leverage it in negotiations with Netflix to increase their fees (assuming their shows are more popular than Netflix…

Can’t say much because I’m further ahead (just one episode to go) but this show is evolving into something weirdly unsettling and I don’t mean the nasty serial killer stuff...the characters themselves make me sort of queasy, especially Holden. Which I think is a good thing, maybe a great thing. Will wait for the…

Trump’s only hope for re-election is being so damn entertaining that nobody can bear to cancel his shit show. I guess it could work.

It might harm their valuation if investors wonder if they’ve lost their friggen minds, giving away valuable insider information like that.

Netflix has their subscribers’ names and credit card numbers. Why would they have any trouble sussing out their likely demographics?

Netflix would be foolish to sell their data to Nielsens for any amount of money. Their data is one of the most valuable things they own.

Investors are looking at subscriber numbers and a lot of them are highly skeptical of Netflix too. On sites like seekingalpha, there is a lively discussion about when Netflix is going to crash back to earth...except that discussion has been going on for years now...

I could believe that their top shows have 25 million viewers out of what, 110 million subscribers now? Netflix is global, that could ramp up their viewership pretty high for the most popular shows. Which is a big problem with Nielsens - it doesn’t measure global viewing.

Or maybe the shows are a lot more popular than people assume, which means the companies making or licensing the shows to Netflix are going to want more money. This is all about fees negotiations.

Netflix hasn’t forfeited anything. They are motivated not to release numbers and to throw doubt on numbers that anyone else releases. This is true even if (probably by amazing random chance), the numbers are accurate despite not measuring mobile or viewing outside the US, which is half of Netflix’s viewing now and…

Nielsens is hoping Netflix’s content providers will buy the data from them so they can turn around and negotiate higher fees from Netflix, thus raising our subscription fees.

The data on Netflix won’t be right, though. It won’t cover mobile and it won’t measure anything outside the US. It’ll be skewed on both counts, badly.