> The more those things are shared and become a common heritage the more they come to form a shared culture. I only argue that we already had that kind of shar

> The more those things are shared and become a common heritage the more they come to form a shared culture. I only argue that we already had that kind of sharing. I know about Monthy Python since late 80s, I was barely more thank a kid. The article talks specifically about Netflix, an American paid subscription service whose primary objective is "growth" and "profit". With less than 40 million accounts in Europe over a population of 700 million people it's barely relevant. Maybe it's relevant among youngsters and parents using it as a nanny for their little children, but a large part of the population ignore it completely and, frankly, the catalogue does not contain anything barely resembling the cultural impact of Monthy Python. I can speak about the Italian material: they are airing shows and movies made for the Italian TV (low quality, low budget, same old actors' faces everywhere, nothing that we haven't already seen somewhere else, it's basically recycling garbage) or recent cinema productions made buy the "usual suspects" to get the government's funds (that usually go to the same "usual suspect" aforementioned) That's completely missing the point about what the "Italian culture" could look like. There were a few gems before, but now that the big guys are in, forget about it, they are going to air only those things that they own the rights for, so now they are being paid two times. There is no Fellini, Antonioni, Leone, Bertolucci, Fulci, Bava, Argento, but there is this shit https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81304753 https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81304753 a movie so bad that even bad movies are ashamed of being in the same category. The other scary phenomenon is that they are conflating the ratings, every movie on Netflix must be great according to Netflix, so "Piccolo grande amore" has rating around 90% even though Raoul Bova himself doesn't want to talk about it. It was considered utter tash, off and online, until Netflix picked it up. If everything is good, nothing is good. That's the opposite of culture. > you're never going to understand someone perfectly without sharing their cultural references, and they go all the way back to childhood Exactly. Hence my point about not completely getting the references in Southpark. I've never heard of them as a kid, they mean nothing to me, even though I know what they are. It's not Netflix that is going to do that, it's internet that did that. Netflix is only one player and who knows for how much longer, now that major studios are creating their own platforms. Wanna talk about shared cultural heritage? Disney+ with all the Disney movies in catalog has much better chances of spreading it.