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A few months back I went through my watch history on the app after thinking I hadn't seen a good Netflix series in awhile and comparing 2018/2019 to 2020/2021 N
by jdprgm 5y ago
A few months back I went through my watch history on the app after thinking I hadn't seen a good Netflix series in awhile and comparing 2018/2019 to 2020/2021 Netflix put out 5X less content I was interested in. There was a period where almost every weekend there was a new series dropping or a comedy special or something interesting and then it just fell off a complete cliff. Understandably covid impacted productions but somehow other streaming networks seemed to do much better.
Netflix's position on cancelling shows on a whim is also extremely frustrating. It's also completely bizarre to me that they (or really any streaming service) don't seem to be willing to even try to create any quality sitcoms despite paying fortunes to license all the good ones from the past 20 years and these clearly having massive value from a re-watchability perspective on a platform compared to a watch it once drama series.
Also I don't understand why the user interface particularly on AppleTV particularly around new shows is basically straight up hostile to the user. Just show me a damn feed for new content (this is one of the most insane trends in tech lately of refusal to have a time series feed of content (Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, etc). Netflix will show under "New" stuff that came out months and months ago and at the same time a new season will come out of a show they know i've watched previous seasons of and it won't even be the first thing on my feed.
Now in December for the first time in ages they actually had some good content to buy back some goodwill after being so bad for nearly all of the pandemic and what do they do... immediately jack up prices. Insanity.