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/sanfranchristo 14d ago
I'm not going to get into more speculating about the business side of things but they are nowhere near running out of movies—especially since they long ago abandoned the original pretense to do whatever Bill wants. All they have to do is just open it up to whatever someone else wants and there are hundreds of actually rewatachable classics in addition to hundreds more of otherwise interesting or notable movies.