3 No, It Won't Save Cult Shows

"But Netflix brought back Arrested Development!" you cry desperately, tearing at your homemade "I Just Blue Myself" T-shirt. And yes, they did bring back a great show -- but it didn't work out for them. In fact, you might say they blue themselves.



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No matter how much you enjoyed it, the reviews for Arrested Development Season 4 were "mixed," and Netflix's stock dipped in the aftermath of middling reviews. Note that we only said "mixed," not "bad" (71 out of 100 on Metacritic), but that stock drop is still the biggest one Netflix has suffered in six months.

So yeah, don't expect streaming video to become a game preserve for your favorite unjustly cancelled series -- streaming series may not be subject to the exact same economic considerations as TV shows, but they have their own economic considerations regardless. And since Netflix has explicitly said that they don't care about the fans of cult shows, you might as well go ahead and close that "Bring Back Outsourced" petition.