Yeah, Recently loads of series have had terrible endings. Star vs the Forces of Evil crashed and burned in it's last half a series, with (Ending spoilers)
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the protagonist essentially commiting genocide on her own children to stop the bad guy, who then survived anyway, all the while making out that being permanently separated from her boyfriend was the worst thing that happened as a result. What the hell disney, you make your main chracter pull a Thanos and are just going to ignore it?!



But yeah, it seems Netflix has noticed people being wary about long shows, some of it's newest shows like the Idhun Chronicles & that new Tranformers series only have five to six 20 minute episodes as a full season, so around the same total run time as a movie.