According to the research, a “labor-intensive approach” and repeated cost overruns are to blame for this expense explosion.
Delays in script delivery were partly to blame for this. When “only a fraction of the season was written,” the second season of the program started to be produced.
Furthermore, Variety described Riot’s $60 million investment in advertising the first season as “eyebrow-raising”
For a firm that is not distributing the program and far more than Netflix spent. In spite of this, the second season of the program has been a huge success so far.