With every show from One Day at a Time to Daredevil to Dear White People to Dark, Netflix’s team of execs has to gather up all of the relevant viewership data at its disposal – if only they made it public knowledge!
– and then also look outward to measure the shows’ impact on critics and pop culture.
Now, there are no doubt many more factors involved in Netflix’s cryptic method for allowing or destroying its series’ futures, but that’s a nice four-quadrant example to start with.