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Watch Black Mirror, you can pinpoint the exact moment that some suit at netflix gained creative control of that show and ran it into the gutter. It wasn't enoug

Watch Black Mirror, you can pinpoint the exact moment that some suit at netflix gained creative control of that show and ran it into the gutter. It wasn't enough to have a show critiquing the existing techno dystopian world we live in, they actually had to make it real by throwing in some techno dystopian propaganda in there too. There was also this terrible show that got instantly cancelled called Sense 8. The first scene of that show was this absurd sex scene where a woman was having sex with a trans-woman using a dildo and the dildo flops onto the ground and is soaked in some disgusting fluid. Netflix jumped the shark.

afavour 4y ago
Sense8 came out in 2015. We're doing some real revisionist history if we're going to start claiming that a near decade-old show is attributable for Netflix's decline.
- friedman23 4y ago
  Netflix's decline has been a decade in the making. They've been constantly shoveling out shit. I'm throwing out a number here but I'm guessing 90% of their original programming has been cancelled. They've been lighting the money on fire from the start and it was never sustainable. EDIT: Speaking of 2015, funny thing, Netflix's valuation is practically at its 2015 valuation
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    the majority of all original programming gets cancelled. Who is the media company so great that isn’t shoveling out shit? Disney with marvel and Star Wars? HBO where most of the creative staff left recently because of HBO Max strategy? CBS with the 50th CSI, FBI, or Law and Order show?
  - afavour 4y ago
    I don't disagree with anything you've said there I just don't think it has absolutely anything to do with "wokeness". That's just the latest meme everyone loves to throw around.
    - friedman23 4y ago
      I wont blame wokeness for Netflix's shows being terrible. I will say that for some reason a ton of terribly written shows were greenlit by Netflix and they happened to be woke. I'm guessing that writing that appeals to everyone in your political bubble is easier to get greenlit than actually good writing that might actually make you question your beliefs in some manner.
      - skinnymuch 4y ago
        Yeah sure. The company pushing Chapelle and Gervais transphobic standup comedy and continuing to pay them more money is the woke company. People need to lay off buzz words
nkozyra 4y ago
> There was also this terrible show that got instantly cancelled called Sense 8. The first scene of that show was this absurd sex scene where a woman was having sex with a trans-woman using a dildo and the dildo flops onto the ground and is soaked in some disgusting fluid. Ok, but they also have a very heteronormative show Sex/Life that's equally trashy and lowbrow, maybe the issue isn't the "wokeness?"
skinnymuch 4y ago
What was disgusting about the fluid? I’m not sure what it is. However I’m going to venture you don’t find the fluids of heteronormative sex disgusting. More than that. Who cares. I watched the show and don’t remember that scene. I can’t imagine caring about sex scenes in media. They are so unimportant. Sense8 didn’t get instantly cancelled either. It literally got a second season.

afavour 4y ago

Sense8 came out in 2015. We're doing some real revisionist history if we're going to start claiming that a near decade-old show is attributable for Netflix's decline.

friedman23 4y ago
Netflix's decline has been a decade in the making. They've been constantly shoveling out shit. I'm throwing out a number here but I'm guessing 90% of their original programming has been cancelled. They've been lighting the money on fire from the start and it was never sustainable. EDIT: Speaking of 2015, funny thing, Netflix's valuation is practically at its 2015 valuation
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  the majority of all original programming gets cancelled. Who is the media company so great that isn’t shoveling out shit? Disney with marvel and Star Wars? HBO where most of the creative staff left recently because of HBO Max strategy? CBS with the 50th CSI, FBI, or Law and Order show?
- afavour 4y ago
  I don't disagree with anything you've said there I just don't think it has absolutely anything to do with "wokeness". That's just the latest meme everyone loves to throw around.
  - friedman23 4y ago
    I wont blame wokeness for Netflix's shows being terrible. I will say that for some reason a ton of terribly written shows were greenlit by Netflix and they happened to be woke. I'm guessing that writing that appeals to everyone in your political bubble is easier to get greenlit than actually good writing that might actually make you question your beliefs in some manner.
    - skinnymuch 4y ago
      Yeah sure. The company pushing Chapelle and Gervais transphobic standup comedy and continuing to pay them more money is the woke company. People need to lay off buzz words

nkozyra 4y ago

> There was also this terrible show that got instantly cancelled called Sense 8. The first scene of that show was this absurd sex scene where a woman was having sex with a trans-woman using a dildo and the dildo flops onto the ground and is soaked in some disgusting fluid. Ok, but they also have a very heteronormative show Sex/Life that's equally trashy and lowbrow, maybe the issue isn't the "wokeness?"

skinnymuch 4y ago

What was disgusting about the fluid? I’m not sure what it is. However I’m going to venture you don’t find the fluids of heteronormative sex disgusting. More than that. Who cares. I watched the show and don’t remember that scene. I can’t imagine caring about sex scenes in media. They are so unimportant. Sense8 didn’t get instantly cancelled either. It literally got a second season.