I find it super annoying - just when I get into a series and the story's going well, it gets cancelled out of nowhere. It's happened to me with several shows. Is there some system behind it or is it just pure arbitrariness from the streaming services?
There's actually a system behind it, but it's not necessarily fair to viewers. Streaming services usually cancel series because the view numbers drop or the production costs are too high compared to the viewership - a series has to make economic sense for the platforms, no matter how good the story is. Traditional TV networks operated similarly, but streaming services are even more ruthless because they use their algorithms and subscriber numbers as their benchmark and have less patience with slow-burn series. The annoying thing is that you often can't know whether a new series will get a season 3 or end after 2 seasons - that's only decided after the first couple of weeks after release.
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