How come foreign series aren’t popular in the US?

[choco-latte]

With a few counted exceptions like Casa de Papel a few years ago, how come series in other languages aren’t popular at all in the US? I guess K-Dramas have a bit of a public though but they’re way more popular in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America. Same with Turkish series which are super popular around the world.

[TonyMetal___1986]

Because they consider that they have the best cinemas in the world, hollywood 😄

Miss choco loco, are you going to become a Hollywood celeb, i think that you'd fit well in a new
"Twilight Saga" series hehe

[choco-latte]

Really? I was obsessed with Twilight in high school lol. And acting itself would actually sound fun but I couldn’t handle the lack of privacy, I’m so shy 🫣😂

[TonyMetal___1986]

You're petite cute figure fits well the main character haha

[choco-latte]

This is actually the second time that someone said that I give off Bella (main character) vibes lol, thank you so much ☺️ 👍

[TonyMetal___1986]

You're welcome miss choco loco 😊

[TonyMetal___1986]

Thanks for the mho 🙂

[choco-latte]

You’re welcome 😇

[jahaims]

Because America generates a lot of content. That content is more relatable to the average American

[AI Opinion]

A lot of it is habit and comfort zones 🇺🇸

Most Americans grew up with dubbed anime at best, so reading subtitles still feels like “work” to many. Hollywood dominates the local market, so foreign series rarely get prime promotion or good time slots.

Streaming changed things a bit: K‑dramas, La Casa de Papel, Dark, Squid Game proved that when platforms actually push them, people watch. But they still fight against language bias, low marketing, and the idea that “if it’s not in English, it’s niche.” 🎬📺

[KostasKouvalis]

Americans are too simpletonish to enjoy such things.

Only Mexican and Colombian series are popular, because we have a large Spanish speaking population. But even so, only Spanish speaking people watch them. They would probably need to be subtitled, and the majority of Americans don't wanna read a TV show.

I was listening to a Bosnian rock band at work, and my superior walked in and her face was like, "What the fuck?"

The majority of Americans have very little interest in things that don't revolve around them.

But heck, even my mother was bitching a few days ago, because we were watching a French travel show, and my mom kept shouting, "They live in HAWAII and filmed this for American TV, why the fuck are they speaking French?" It was actually filmed for French TV, but the narrations were in English but the rest was in French and subtitled. They actually show a lot of French travel shows on that channel and just dub them over.

[KostasKouvalis]

This is an extra internet channel though.
I forgot, we did have one channel before that showed French series and foreign films, but it got pulled. Big surprise there. And one of our previous providers had a Russian and some Asian and Arabic channels.
But like I said, it's mainly people who speak that language who watch those things.
There's a town about an hour from me that has the largest Punjabi community in the US and their movie theather shows Punjabi films

[choco-latte]

I definitely noticed that about music too. Whenever I tell people about some foreign songs, like some Indian or Russian songs for example, they look at me weird 😂😂🤣

[Chazmatazz269]

Many people don’t like reading captions while watching a movie or a show. Additionally, dubbing is expensive and if not done well it can be off putting.
There are actually a lot of foreign shows and movies popular in the US, they’re just mostly in English. Some of the more popular ones get remade here, like “The Office” and “Being Human”. I think that’s just greed. However, i do think the US version of “Being Human” was generally better.
I grew up luving old kung fu movies. So i don’t mind captions for action movies. But when you have to get more exposition from dialogue, you end up watching the captions more than the picture. So i draw the line there.

[NathanDavis]

they are not as common, no...

but there's a few here and there... that are extremely popular

the thing about the USA is that... there's a whole lot of things that become popular enough at the same time, so they "noise" about them is for just some few and that, they're way too loud... which makes it seems like "everyone is watching that and that one thing alone"

lol

[Nikki1989]

Most Americans have enough trouble with basic English, let alone other languages and cultures. I should know; I was born and raised there, and it always makes me cringe with embarrassment.

[Abbycado]

I don't think a lot of people here would want to watch something in subtitles is my guess. There are a couple Canadian shows that are popular around where I live (close to Canada). Naturally, they are in English, tho.

[Kvass]

Most Americans don’t like to read subtitles, many aren’t interested in other cultures and think what the U. S. makes is the best anyway. Small world view.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Could be because so many US series are produced in the US, so maybe the channels distributing TV shows consider audience to be too busy for imported shows?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

*so many series

[DryGermanGuy]

Synchronisation to English isn't really a thing in the United States film industry... 🤷‍♂️

[Anonymous]

Because they are on tik tok all day. The movies they put out in the US repeat the same lines 5 or 6 times because they know they will lose their attention and type on their phone.

[AgentG111]

Honestly, from my personal opinion we speak American if you want something in another language that's something you either pay for here or go there and pay to get there

[Clara4567]

Because in america there are a lot of tv series that are created than the rest of the wolrd and plus for what i know, having some American friends, American are more interested in contenti you are more inclined to relate with.

[_Jenny_]

@choco-latte The foreign language, plus the “Subtitles” in English are poorly written.

[Oldschool1981]

A few Canadian ones are or were. Schitts Creek, SCTV, and the Red Green show

[Anonymous]

They aren't distributed in the U. S. so no one sees them.

[Iron_Man]

Rocket man would be very popular in Washington DC

[Anonymous]

America is all about itself.

[Paige2006]

Because the acting is bad

[canamlusciouslad73]

Xenophobia.