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Netflix put out 90,000 minutes of original series, movies in 2018

17 points by jmsflknr 8y ago

FlyMoreRockets 8y ago
90,000 minutes is 1500 hours, or if you watched 40 hours of Netflix original content every week, 37.5 weeks of content.
zapzupnz 8y ago
And the majority of it, absolutely pish. Plenty of low budget films full of F-grade actors that not even Hallmark would've touched.
- brianwawok 8y ago
  But it hits some sweet niches! I have found some sweet niche shows. Not big enough to get a network to drop money on it. But enough myself and I’m sure some others did. I only watch a few hours a week so I don’t need 600 amazing shows. I need like 5 sweet shows a year to tide me over between game of thrones and Silicon Valley.
  - zapzupnz 8y ago
    I'm generally the same. Basically, everything is filler until Doctor Who comes out. I've been enjoying some original comedies like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Good News, and some others; but a lot of the rest of the "originals" I like are really just coproductions of continuations of shows that existed on other networks, like Rita and Midnight Diner.
- addicted 8y ago
  Besides the UK stuff that Netflix rebrands as Netflix Originals in the US, I can’t remember the last time I watched a Netflix original that I was able to make it past a few episodes. Even some of the more renowned stuff is clearly trying really hard to be “different”. And the rest of it appears algorithmically generated to please certain viewer types.
  - lostsock 8y ago
    I've watched and enjoyed pretty much every episode of: House of Cards, Stranger things, Altered Carbon, Orange Is the New Black. What have you watched that you didn't get into?
- gammateam 8y ago
  F-grade that gets masquaraded as good in a custom tailored 5 star rating just for you All because you accidentally clicked an anime once
King-Aaron 8y ago
I just want the same content in Aus as the guys in the US get. It's utterly shit here.
- deleted 8y ago
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- napsterbr 8y ago
  VPN to the rescue! I use a third party VPN and Netflix does not complain. Spinning up a VM and proxying with SOCKS should also do the trick.
raylangivens 8y ago
I am not entirely sold on Netflix Originals. The way a network grows, NTFLX is a network, is by creating quality content that stands the test of time. Great works of art that you constantly want to re-watch Mad Men, The Sopranos, The Wire, BB etc. Name one show on NTFLX that you want to re-watch 5-6 years from now. They produce good content, its good enough for streaming in one day but is it worth revisiting in the long-term, does it get you excited about any other future projects ? Hell ,no. This is incredibly subjective, I live in India and found that I was using it less and less even though I was keeping the subscription on. I have Prime Video and Hotstar, Hotstar is a shitty streaming service but they have license to content from HBO and FX and they have live streaming for EPL & Bundesliga my main reason for subscribing. I cancelled my NTFLX subscription a few days ago. I might switch it on for a couple of months, when I its off-season for live sports, but otherwise I intend to use it sparingly until they start producing quality content, which I have a high bar for.
- notafraudster 8y ago
  Mad Men didn't even have an audience when it aired (<2 million viewers most episodes), and airs on a network that likely won't exist in 5-6 years (or at least won't be producing new content), so it's not super clear to me what your point is about those shows as evidence of how a network grows. The way a network grows is by producing content people want to watch, whether that's disposable content made to last a minute or content made to last the test of time. HBO isn't growing because people are subscribing to watch Sopranos re-runs. Past reporting suggests churn in most subscription content services is very low, so your Netflix cancellation may be unusual. I'd also add that exclusive content is one part of the story, but there's also a lot of licensed content that's very good on Netflix as on other services. But for what it is worth, I would rank the following Netflix originals to be "top tier" within their genre -- some of these genres lend themselves more to rewatching than others, and some are closer to my taste than others, some held up in quality through their run more than others, so in a sense I am ranking shows based on their peak quality -- Orange is the New Black; Bloodline; Stranger Things; The Crown; Gilmore Girls AYITL; The OA; A Series of Unfortunate Events; Mindhunter; The Haunting of Hill House; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Master of None; Love; Lady Dynamite; Santa Clarita Diet; GLOW; American Vandal; Maniac; Bojack Horseman; F is for Family; Disenchantment; Hilda; Dark; The Rain; Elite; Chef's Table; Making a Murderer; Shot in the Dark; Wormwood; Wild Wild Country; Salt Fat Acid Heat; Queer Eye; The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell; My Next Guest Needs No Introduction; Lilyhammer; Terrace House; Alias Grace; The End of the Fucking World; Collateral; Wanderlust; Longmire; Black Mirror; Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In addition to these, the following shows are Netflix originals in my region, indicating that although someone else initially funded them, Netflix bought them for exclusive distribution here, and also meet the above requirements: Babylon Berlin; Bodyguard; Casé; Crashing; Cuckoo; Derry Girls; The Great British Baking Show; Happy!; Happy Valley; The Investigator; Peaky Blinders; River. I have pretty broad taste in TV and watch a lot of TV while I am programming or running data analysis, so maybe the breadth of stuff I include here is surprising to most. But to the extent your post is a useful anecdote about how Netflix has no great shows, I'm responding to your challenge to "Name one show" that would meet that criteria. (These are TV shows only, not films. I haven't really liked many Netflix original films although there are a few I would say are great, like Okja and Roma)
rurban 8y ago
No to forget that it would have dominated Cannes 2018, if the french producers wouldn't have fought them to death. And then subsequently dominated the Venice Film Festival with 3 of its most important prices going to Netflix movies: Roma, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, On my skin.

17 points by jmsflknr 8y ago

90,000 minutes is 1500 hours, or if you watched 40 hours of Netflix original content every week, 37.5 weeks of content.

And the majority of it, absolutely pish. Plenty of low budget films full of F-grade actors that not even Hallmark would've touched.

brianwawok 8y ago
But it hits some sweet niches! I have found some sweet niche shows. Not big enough to get a network to drop money on it. But enough myself and I’m sure some others did. I only watch a few hours a week so I don’t need 600 amazing shows. I need like 5 sweet shows a year to tide me over between game of thrones and Silicon Valley.
- zapzupnz 8y ago
  I'm generally the same. Basically, everything is filler until Doctor Who comes out. I've been enjoying some original comedies like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Good News, and some others; but a lot of the rest of the "originals" I like are really just coproductions of continuations of shows that existed on other networks, like Rita and Midnight Diner.
addicted 8y ago
Besides the UK stuff that Netflix rebrands as Netflix Originals in the US, I can’t remember the last time I watched a Netflix original that I was able to make it past a few episodes. Even some of the more renowned stuff is clearly trying really hard to be “different”. And the rest of it appears algorithmically generated to please certain viewer types.
- lostsock 8y ago
  I've watched and enjoyed pretty much every episode of: House of Cards, Stranger things, Altered Carbon, Orange Is the New Black. What have you watched that you didn't get into?
gammateam 8y ago
F-grade that gets masquaraded as good in a custom tailored 5 star rating just for you All because you accidentally clicked an anime once

King-Aaron 8y ago

I just want the same content in Aus as the guys in the US get. It's utterly shit here.

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napsterbr 8y ago
VPN to the rescue! I use a third party VPN and Netflix does not complain. Spinning up a VM and proxying with SOCKS should also do the trick.

raylangivens 8y ago

I am not entirely sold on Netflix Originals. The way a network grows, NTFLX is a network, is by creating quality content that stands the test of time. Great works of art that you constantly want to re-watch Mad Men, The Sopranos, The Wire, BB etc. Name one show on NTFLX that you want to re-watch 5-6 years from now. They produce good content, its good enough for streaming in one day but is it worth revisiting in the long-term, does it get you excited about any other future projects ? Hell ,no. This is incredibly subjective, I live in India and found that I was using it less and less even though I was keeping the subscription on. I have Prime Video and Hotstar, Hotstar is a shitty streaming service but they have license to content from HBO and FX and they have live streaming for EPL & Bundesliga my main reason for subscribing. I cancelled my NTFLX subscription a few days ago. I might switch it on for a couple of months, when I its off-season for live sports, but otherwise I intend to use it sparingly until they start producing quality content, which I have a high bar for.

notafraudster 8y ago
Mad Men didn't even have an audience when it aired (<2 million viewers most episodes), and airs on a network that likely won't exist in 5-6 years (or at least won't be producing new content), so it's not super clear to me what your point is about those shows as evidence of how a network grows. The way a network grows is by producing content people want to watch, whether that's disposable content made to last a minute or content made to last the test of time. HBO isn't growing because people are subscribing to watch Sopranos re-runs. Past reporting suggests churn in most subscription content services is very low, so your Netflix cancellation may be unusual. I'd also add that exclusive content is one part of the story, but there's also a lot of licensed content that's very good on Netflix as on other services. But for what it is worth, I would rank the following Netflix originals to be "top tier" within their genre -- some of these genres lend themselves more to rewatching than others, and some are closer to my taste than others, some held up in quality through their run more than others, so in a sense I am ranking shows based on their peak quality -- Orange is the New Black; Bloodline; Stranger Things; The Crown; Gilmore Girls AYITL; The OA; A Series of Unfortunate Events; Mindhunter; The Haunting of Hill House; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Master of None; Love; Lady Dynamite; Santa Clarita Diet; GLOW; American Vandal; Maniac; Bojack Horseman; F is for Family; Disenchantment; Hilda; Dark; The Rain; Elite; Chef's Table; Making a Murderer; Shot in the Dark; Wormwood; Wild Wild Country; Salt Fat Acid Heat; Queer Eye; The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell; My Next Guest Needs No Introduction; Lilyhammer; Terrace House; Alias Grace; The End of the Fucking World; Collateral; Wanderlust; Longmire; Black Mirror; Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In addition to these, the following shows are Netflix originals in my region, indicating that although someone else initially funded them, Netflix bought them for exclusive distribution here, and also meet the above requirements: Babylon Berlin; Bodyguard; Casé; Crashing; Cuckoo; Derry Girls; The Great British Baking Show; Happy!; Happy Valley; The Investigator; Peaky Blinders; River. I have pretty broad taste in TV and watch a lot of TV while I am programming or running data analysis, so maybe the breadth of stuff I include here is surprising to most. But to the extent your post is a useful anecdote about how Netflix has no great shows, I'm responding to your challenge to "Name one show" that would meet that criteria. (These are TV shows only, not films. I haven't really liked many Netflix original films although there are a few I would say are great, like Okja and Roma)

rurban 8y ago

No to forget that it would have dominated Cannes 2018, if the french producers wouldn't have fought them to death. And then subsequently dominated the Venice Film Festival with 3 of its most important prices going to Netflix movies: Roma, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, On my skin.