Fair enough point that if the target audience for the 20 somethings isn’t resonating with the show, it’s a problem.

But my question is whether that’s just a US social media thing or a real global take for the youth target audience.

Is Apple putting too much priority on chasing / selling shows to the declining US male youth audience that’s watching less and less television anyway?

Even in the US, the show brought in a larger and more diverse audience share to the franchise, not just preteen and adolescent boys looking for monsters bashing one another. Is it a bad thing when a show can draw young women?

The show did very well outside the US other than in the CANZUK countries and Ireland (which just seem not to have a large kaiju fandom base). Why fix what’s not broken when the show pulled some of Apple’s highest audience numbers overall?

As someone who watches a lot of Asian productions in the original languages with subtitles, mainly because American productions have less and less that interests me, I’m seeing this as a sign that decision makers in Hollywood are still stuck in the idea that if they make stuff for the US market, everyone will want to see it. Meanwhile, Asian produced content now dominates globally.

The spin off will take place in the 1980s after Lee Shaw returns from the Axis world the first time.

It’s being promoted as having a different tone, mixing Kaiju and Cold War spy thriller stuff. The cast seems packed for action.

✔️ have to agree but the title is a verbatim autofill from the article so I chose not to modify.