As a Disney+ subscriber, I’m growing restless. I haven’t watched a Disney+ original since the wildly uneven “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” The service has dramatically slowed its original output, and it doesn’t look like there’s any strategy in place aside from 3-4 Marvel and Star Wars shows every year. At this point, I’m reconsidering my subscription.

If you check out the official Disney+ “coming soon” page, you can see a whopping nine titles.

The problem is that those titles will be coming at a glacial pace.

• LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Sept. 13
• Agatha All Along - Sept. 18
• Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - Nov. 2
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Dec. 3
• Win or Lose - Dec. 6
• The Doomies - TBA
• Percy Jackson and The Olympians Season 2 - TBA
• Ironheart - TBA
• Daredevil: Born Again - March 2025

Are we to understand Disney+ is offering zero new titles in October? Only one in November? Are they serious?

The main draw of Disney+ is the vast library. Marvel blockbusters of today live alongside 60-year-old live-action Disney hits like “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “Swiss Family Robinson.” You can watch animation landmarks like “Snow White” from 1937. If you have children, it feels like a must-have service.

But when your children pass the age where they need to watch “Frozen” and “Encanto” on endless repeat, the appeal of Disney+ dwindles significantly. Aside from the first season of “The Mandalorian,” “Andor,” and “WandaVision,” adult fans have had little to enjoy. One-off titles like The Beatles doc “Get Back” or “Hamilton” are great to have, but they’re those are unicorns that can’t be easily replicated.

Franchise Fatigue

The ability for any streamer to succeed depends heavily on its franchises. Max has seen success with building on its hits like with “House of the Dragon” and the “True Detective” anthology. Netflix scored with “Stranger Things” and “Squid Game” (season 2 coming in December), along with cheap, fast reality shows like “Too Hot to Handle” and “Love is Blind.” Paramount+ is finding its stride with the Taylor Sheridan dramas like “Tulsa King” and “Mayor of Kingstown.”

But Disney+ appears creatively stuck. They have the weight of the Disney name. Subpar titles errode the standard. The brand is too precious to risk. So Disney+ series have big budgets and massive expectations. The company has levels of beauracracy that stifle innovation. A Star Wars or Marvel show must fit neatly in the timelines and character arcs already established by decades of storytelling.

Take a look at the IMDb user scores for the most well-known Disney+ property: “The Mandalorian.”

Season 1 shows a strong start, a weaker middle, and a strong finish. Season 2 offered a consistent growth pattern and the final episode was the highest-rated of the entire series. But Season 3 offered much lower scores, and it’s the only season where the finale was rated worse than the second-to-last episode. The show seems to have lost its way.

Now, the creative team is working up a feature film with the main characters, meaning a Season 4 may be several years away.

Still, “The Mandalorian” is the only Disney+ show to show any kind of staying power over the years. The other five standalone Star Wars series have mixed track record:

Only “Andor” offers a series score that averages above 8. It’s also the only series to be renewed. Reaction was much more harsh toward the most recent show, “The Acolyte.” While review-bombing may have played a role in the series’ overall 4.0 IMDb rating (and 18% on Rotten Tomatoes!), it speaks to a general sense that Disney may not know what it’s doing with all these series.

In the middle of “The Book of Boba Fett,” the main characters from “The Mandalorian” arrived to bump the title character to the sidelines of his own show.

Are these shows for children? For adults who grew up loving the movies? Are they supposed to appeal to teenagers? The upcoming “Skeleton Crew” appears to feature Jude law and a bunch of children.

I’ve been buying Star Wars movies since they were on VHS tapes, but I don’t have much enthusiasm for the franchise anymore.

Disney itself has throttled down its Marvel output after so many misfires. It gives the sense that the company is flailing around for something that will work. Sure, “Deadpool vs. Wolverine” crossed $1 billion at the box office, but that doesn’t help Disney+ over the long haul.

With a decreased slate of originals and too many misfires with the crown jewels, Disney+ subscribers must be wondering if it’s really worth $14/month to watch this stuff without ads.

Good Disney+ Alternatives

Paramount+

If you’re looking for entertainment for families, consider Paramount+. Young children will enjoy the Nickelodon collection, with hits like “PAW Patrol,” “Spongebob Squarepants,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Peppa Pig,” and much more.

Paramount+ has an all-star TV lineup featuring almost all the biggest hits from BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, and Smithsonian Channel. Viewers can see all the “Star Trek” series, “Ghosts,” “Frasier,” “Halo,” “Blue Bloods,” “Survivor,” “The Daily Show,” “Dexter,” “Yellowjackets,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Cheers,” “I Love Lucy,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Tulsa King,” and “Reno 911.”

The service has a legendary library. You’ll see Best Picture winners like “The Godfather,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “12 Years a Slave,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Chicago,” “Gladiator,” “American Beauty,” “Titanic,” “Braveheart,” and “Forrest Gump.”

Paramount+ also has lots of popular hits like “Saving Private Ryan,” “The Truman Show,” “Terminator 2,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” and “A Quiet Place.”

Paramount+ also has a strong lineup of sports, including March Madness, college football, NFL games, The Masters, Serie A, Argentina Liga Profesional de Fútbol, and UEFA Champions League.

Netflix

You won’t get the intellectual property of Disney with Netflix, but they’re spending more than any other media company on streaming exclusives.

Netflix offers something for everyone, from kids to adults and the whole family. You’ll see a rotating libary of Hollywood hits like “Jurassic Park,” “John Wick,” “Whiplash,” “The Batman,” “Apollo 13,” “Dumb and Dumber,” “Trolls,” “Moneyball,” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Subscribers also see original hits like “Spaceman,” “The Greatest Night in Pop,” “May December,” “The Killer,” “Bird Box,” “Red Notice,” and “Glass Onion.” Netflix also features stand-up shows from many of today’s best comics.

PBS Kids

At The Streamable, we are huge PBS Kids fans. If you have preschool-age children, there’s nothing better. Kids love “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” “Wild Kratts,” “Sesame Street,” “Molly of Denali,” “Rosie’s Rules,” and more. Best of all, it’s completely free!

If your kids love it, it may be worth subscribing to the service through Prime Video since you’d get all the episodes of all the shows, as opposed to the limited episodes available in the app.