
The cast of Bridgerton, one of Netflix’s most recent hits
(Picture: LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX)If Netflix was a Netflix show, now would be its end-of-series cliffhanger: the company which built itself into a culture-shaper, a streaming service with 221 million-plus subscribers in more than 190 countries, suddenly faces a blockbuster-sized problem.
Netflix’s once-rocket fuelled subscriber growth has gone into reverse. Some 200,000 subscribers quit their subscriptions in the first quarter of this year.