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> Simply put, Netflix (and its imitators) produce too many TV shows that are too good—and too easy to binge. I find most shows on Netflix to not be that good.
by teraku 6y ago
> Simply put, Netflix (and its imitators) produce too many TV shows that are too good—and too easy to binge.
I find most shows on Netflix to not be that good. I drop them within minutes.
- samirillian 6y agoYeah netflix is more like the raw cookie dough of tv. You know it's just eggs sugar and butter but goddamn if you don't love it.
- q3k 6y agoSame. For all the supposed great shows and films out there, I watched a total of zero minutes of TV or films this year - down from dozens/hundreds of hours last year.
- teraku 6y agoI probably watch 1-2 shows over the course of the year on netflix, with an occasional film here and there if I'm interested. And all of them together with my partner, who watches many more shows and films than me.
- q3k 6y agoTo me it seems like all of modern streaming media (what's on Netflix, HBO, ...) basically collapsed to be this amorphous blob that mostly hits the same stylistic and emotional notes, regardless of genre. I might be getting old/jaded. It might also be because I used to have better access to arthouse cinemas that played more experimental, independent titles, while now I'm at the mercy of whatever is available on streaming services. So I end up just supplementing that by watching weird stuff on YouTube, which is somewhat suboptimal.
- teraku 6y agoI have not experienced the "old age" of arthouses. But from talks to older people in the "scene" it's become a lot of mishmash and the same old story over and over that it's really rare to be intrigued by it. Just saying that, because there still are some art houses here (although not sure if that's still the case post-corona), but most of their films don't intrigue me. Sometimes they do, and I'm always a bit bummed to see that the venues are half-empty when I go.
- fumar 6y agoMUBI has art house cinema to stream. I don’t binge watch it. I can’t even if I tried.
- fullshark 6y agoAgreed. I think the medium has fully matured at this point and is no longer that interesting. There was a bit of a revolution when adult movie fare moved to TV 15 years ago and ideas/plots/characters were given hours of fleshing out instead of 2-3 hours but that has seemingly run its course. I think what we are seeing now is just tail interests being served by the explosion of content, more so than TV quality being better than ever. Edit: With more thought this might be the same thing to the consumer actually. They don't care how good the average TV show is, just how engrossing the hours of TV they watch every day is. With so much content it's never been easier to make those hours engrossing to you, even if it feels like the average / median TV show isn't really improving and possibly getting much worse.
- jfengel 6y agoI'd say "not for me" rather than "not good". Presumably they're for somebody. Netflix gets no jollies out of producing a bunch of content that nobody wants. There are a lot of people out there, and Netflix is like a catalog of the different kinds of things they can want. It's hard producing content that hits me personally where I live, and I'm always grateful when they do. It happens a few times a year. I'm glad other people are also getting their stuff. Clearly a lot of people are finding enough to make them happy. I'm sure Netflix would love to produce more shows that manage to hit a wide range of people. I think that they did bottle such lightning again with Queen's Gambit.