I mean, Dave Chappelle alone got a $60 million payday for a trio of specials, and the company isn’t one known for limiting creators’ budgets.
So we shouldn’t expect to see Netflix’s money-based behavior change any time soon, unless its quarterly expectations keep surpassing the actual numbers coming in.
Granted, last year’s came later than the previous years’ had been, and perhaps the international approach plays into that as well.
Either way it goes, these billions that come from the Notes are only a percentage of how much Netflix spends on its content on a yearly basis.