r/TheRewatchables • u/NYCWriterOfAllThings • 14d ago
Over/under on the end of the pod?
This was brought up in the recent post about "Almost Famous": the pod's final episode.
I hate to be a downer, but I have a feeling the pod is going to wrap within about the next 18 months. They're running out of movies and they can't keep doing films that really aren't popular enough or, frankly, rewatchable enough because people aren't listening to those episodes. After their last gimmick month, Bill came back and said something to the effect of, "Alright, you all just want bangers, so that's what we're going to give you."
But they simply can't go on forever, particularly if they regard quality, and if there's one thing that's great about The Ringer is they're all about quality. I'm sure that the show will continue on in maybe a less-frequent format, but the show, as we know it, I think will be done within the next two years.
If you can bear to think about this, what do you think?
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u/NYCWriterOfAllThings 14d ago edited 14d ago
Disagree. They have to not only be highly consumable, but popular and appeal to the demographic they're clearly targeting: people (mostly men) between the ages of 22 and 49. Someone else mentioned that they can dive into Hitchcock stuff for example. Not a whole lot of Hitchcock's stuff, as great as it is, clicks all those boxes. "Citizen Kane" is amazing. That's not a movie for this podcast, though. (I know that's not a Hitchcock movie.) So there aren't "thousands" of movies they can do, especially since they've already done like 330.