Comment by hello_friendos | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hello_friendos | Hacker News Reader

I loved Quibi's short form dramatic and comedic content.

Shape of Pasta is a cooking show about rare pasta types -- sometimes being made by only a single person in a village!

Run This City - A documentary about Jasiel Correia, the youngest mayor in Massachusetts who get's caught in numerous controversies.

Nightgowns follows Drag Queen Sasha Velour's Nightgowns tour, this program worked particularly well on the service.

There are a couple more shows that I live Dishmantled, Let's Roll, Singled Out.

The issue is that these shows had 7 - 10 episodes each. Most of Quibi's content is daily news programming. It honestly felt similar to the daily news shows I can get on Snapchat for free.

If Quibi had more shows like the non-daily news shows I think I would have stayed longer, but Quibi's content is mostly daily news.

I mean, I like pasta as much as the next guy, but if their best show is "a cooking show about rare pasta types", I'm not in the least surprised they're having trouble getting people to pay for this.

I actually know a lot of asian women who like watching what's essentially food tourism TV series and even recommend them to me. Food is definitely a genre that has fans. Besides big fancy ones that go to new cities and regions every episode, there's also smaller fun ones like how the Japanese have a live action and cartoon version of a guy who goes to a different food shop every episode.

I felt similarly. I have enjoyed most of their scripted comedy and drama, but I was surprised that they ended after two weeks (10 episodes.) I was expecting to be drawn into some of these shows over months and be hooked on several stories so I’d continue my trial. Releasing only ~90 minutes of programming per title, and not having many new titles, made it easy to let my trial expire.

> the youngest mayor in Massachusetts who get's caught in numerous controversies

To put it mildly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasiel_Correia

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