Netflix Should’ve Seen This Coming — The First Casualty of the Streaming Wars

Joshua M. Patton
6 min readMay 1, 2022

Netflix’s first subscriber decline in a decade sent shockwaves through the marketplace, but how did no one see this coming?

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Just a few months ago, Netflix quietly celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first original streaming series. Starring The Sopranos alum and E Street Band legend Stevie Van Zandt as a kind of carbon copy of his…

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Joshua M. Patton

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