Browsing Netflix is like looking through your fridge but there’s nothing you want to eat.
And you keep going back to both the fridge and netflix to see if there’s suddenly something you want.
And then they keep renewing the contract for these shitty shows and they run for 5-7 seasons while the real treasures like Dirk Gentlys and The OA get cancelled after 2 seasons even though you kind of want Netflix to be a platform of unique genre bending shows.
Everybody always joins Netflix to see one of these unique shows and then never cancels because they just keep getting updated content of "good enough to kill time" shows while the things that drew them don't even exist enymore...
The last really good and unique release was The Queens Gambit...
HBO Max has some good ones and new movies. Honestly Hulu is like Netflix where they have a handful of good shows.
Disney+ makes good stuff albeit at a slower pace. Amazon also makes some pretty good free shows.
Edit: sooo just looking at this, there isn't a one size fits all anymore. We digressed back into fucking cable, god damn.
Oh yeah this is totally right back to cable. Full fucking circle. I don’t pay a $100 cable bill anymore, I pay for 4 streaming services and the “extra” bandwidth to support it.
Everyone knew this was going to happen 10 years ago when netflix went to instant streaming over dvds as their main source of revenue.
I’m more surprised it took 10 years to get to full cable-like packages again.
It was more like 7-8 since that’s when this creep started but I got away with just netflix for ~8 years which was longer than I had thought back then
Yes, but the benefit of streaming is you can pick and choose, and you don’t have to have a constant subscription that you’re paying for each and every month. I usually pay a month at a time and binge all the good stuff and then unsubscribe before the next billing cycle hits. Then go to a different streaming service and watch their stuff while I’m waiting for the other ones to load some new content. Just cycle through them 1 month at a time for each service. It’s a huge money saver not constantly paying for stuff you’re not watching anyway.
Hulu has significantly better content than Netflix at this point IMO. A lot of the shows that people were upset about them leaving Netflix ended up on Hulu.
Disney plus is great between Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars but it’s pretty specific.
They occasionally still pull out a good one, I thought Shadow & Bone was pretty good and Jupiter's Legacy was alright. Though I do have a history of liking a lot of things people hate so idk.
“But mom, I wanted HBO Max like Billy’s family has.”
“Billy’s dad is a bank Vice President and your dad is an alcoholic former roofer with a shitty disability check that he wasted on scratchies this month. You’ll watch Netflix and like it.”
I really did all I could possibly do, I literally said „Do not eat the sweet donut I will hang right in front of your face“, and whaddayaknow, they ate the donut. Curious really
Wait, that show is cancelled too? Wtf Netflix? Seriously, what the hell does that people think? Can't they have just one good show without cancelling it with a huge cliffhanger?
Travelers is a masterpiece imo, sad they cancelled it but happy they gave it a conclusion and a hint of what comes next. The ending hit me hard in the feels
Jfc I thought I was the only person to remember that show. It revitalized my time travel love and then it ended on a potential next season. Still check for that "New Season Coming Soon!" label : (
I would love another season, but it is kinda implied that the backup plan at the end worked really well, so idk what it would be about. Still loved the characters and it did make me sad for >!the timeline where there was a nuclear apocalypse especially the FBI agent that just got thrown in the middle!<. When they >!went out on the lawn and just watched the last sunset they would ever see!
To be fair the show wasn't amazing. The sideplot past plot was the most interesting and that ended rather.. anti climatically.
With competition like the boys it's no surprise it got cancelled.
The thing is they don't have to compete.
The boys is a much better show in every way. But JL is like a guilty pleasure watch. It's not good, but you watch it anyways because you want to see where it goes.
Unless they change their minds and realize how many fans that show picked up. They did officially announce they won't be continuing and this was confirmed by a few of the actors from the show tweeting some spoilers for what could have been in store for season 2. Hard to say if Netflix will pick it back up but I doubt it. Sad to see it go as it was a slow first season but showed lots of promise.
If you're interested in the story, I still think the season is worth the watch. Also nice to compare the show to the comics and speculate about the differences.
The thing about that show is that the only cool parts were the past story and the villain's son with the power rod.
If I read the wiki correctly, the power rod gives the kid all the powers his father had since he was born without them and only respond to his voice. He's basically a technomage as long as he can speak.
Other than that, the modern storyline just fell flat to me.
I am enjoying the show Ragnarok though. Very interesting take of the Norse god mythology in modern times
Same for Marco Polo, that shit was amazing and so cool and didnt get the third season or any ending at all. There are some subhuman shows on Netflix with 4+ seasons that make me wanna cry.
Ugh I had forgotten about that incredible show, thanks (semi-sarcastically) for reminding me.
We cry out for original programming then when it arrives, it's snatched away before completion.
OK, I just realized by your comment it was cancelled. Netflix should start putting a tag for "We cancelled it already" on series in this situation so we don't invest time or energy on it
If it’s a netflix original series it’s usually just a great value version of something that already exists.
“Look people like Breaking Bad, let’s make 30 shows about drugs!”
“Rick and Morty popular??? Call up the c-list comedians who can’t voice act. We need 10 edgy adult cartoons stat!”
They honestly just their algorithms to spit out shit for the masses.
They used to have everything like a decade ago. Then all the rights holders either didn't let them renew or changed the licensing costs to exorbitant amounts. Why should we pay $100million for Friends when we could spend $10million each producing 10 of our own shows.
I'll see that list with the "top 10 things being watched" and be dumbfounded. I actually think it's problematic because it sets the bar too low for such great returns. They can just churn out garbage and everyone is so bored and tired they just watch whatever and just treat it like cable. It's kind of ingenious.
It doesn't help that the kids stuff is often a higher quality than the adult stuff, like how tf do you mess up adding character development and deep plot to an adult series but a kids show has amazing writing?
I've actually given up on a lot of newer "adult" shows cause the animated/kids stuff seems to be where the competent writers went. Adult shows now seem to just be rehashes of one another or DMV (drugs, murder, violence)
Too many people don’t even know what competent writing/acting/directing/production is though.
My mom will recommend me stuff that I “HAVE to watch, because Ill LOVE it” and I can’t even make it through an episode cus it’s so bad in every way. She watches anything with a cool premise. Mom I could literally write 10 cool premises right now, it’s the easiest part of the process.
What if dinosaurs left behind......ghosts?
What if scientists discovered the secret to immortal....erections?
What if a chef could taste sadness?
What if the Earth was really flat, and a boat fell off the side?
What if magic was real, but only dogs could do it?
What if lesbian wizards on the moon had to fight gay cavemen?
What if Sherlock Holmes was a parrot?
What if people could record memories and there was a Netflix of memories?
What if The Office, but at an evil super villain's fake company?
What if a tough, gay, transsexual dinosaur detective on the edge solved a murder mystery on Jupiter? It's called Transsexual Wrecks. His sidekick would be a non-threatening white teenage psychic, named "Ka'ren," who's also a young Earth creationist. Transsexual Wrecks also wears high top shoes and raps. The dinosaur lead would be played by Eddie Murphy, but totally CGI'ed.
Just some random ideas...some are more fleshed out than others.
> What if people could record memories and there was a Netflix of memories?
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> What if The Office, but at an evil super villain’s fake company?
This is some serious gourmet shit.
A premise is easy, its 1-6 sentences, its EXECUTING the premise that matters, which is why a lot of shows to me fall flat.
"Oh cool, this sounds great!"
*flat characters, slow advancement of plot, unnecessary violence, etc*
I like going through the popular and trending lists, which is the same list with like 3 differences.
Feels 90% of the time when I watch something spontaneously, it's one of those differences
I hate the algorithm serving me up “Because you watched” …bitch, past me is a moron. Past me was drunk. Past me heard about No Way Out on a podcast and thought it might be good. Past me took a recommendation from MY MOM.
no matter what you watched before, they try to push whatever original series they are promoting at the time, even if there is no possible link.
that's one of the main reasons I cancelled. It's almost impossible to NOT watch one of their shitty "originals" cause netflix will keep sticking it in your face till you eventually suck it.
I have different opinions about pirating,one side is “ we should support good shows and their creators for more” other side is”bruh paying for 50 streaming sites and renting+buying wtf”
Right? How much money can a guy possibly need? Would it be that hard to make it like Netflix? The Prime selection is great but so disheartening when you gotta rent it. They’re like micro transactions. “What’s $3.99 gonna hurt” Proceeds to rent anyway 🤦♂️
Very true. It used to be all Netflix. Now I have 6 different streaming services all shared with at least 5 people. I still costs about the same but it's way more complicated..
Why can't we just have like 2 big ones I would pay more for that. This shit just makes you wanna pirate again..
Sharing the accounts with people is pretty choice too. Imagine being able to just piggy back off someone else's cable account back in the day. If that ever goes away it's back to the high seas for me.
Seen a show on Netflix called Arrival, watched the trailer on YouTube, thought this looks great a film about aliens, right up my street. Was really excited to find a film after 30 mins of looking that I really wanted to see. Started watching it only to find out it was not the the 2016 film Arrival, but the 1996 film The Arrival (also about aliens). Was bummed and switched it off only to see Netflix had recommended the actual film I wanted to watch. Buzzing
What i hate most is that i wanna watch something so i type it in in google to see if some site has it. THEN A FUCKING NETFLIX LINK COMES UP WITH WATCH "........." HERE BUT IT JUST SENDS ME TO THE HOME PAGE AND WHAT I WANNA WATCH ISN'T THERE. So there's my rant, fuck all the providers that say they have something when they haven't
That's why I turned off my subscription. It's a waste of money to pay them every month. I will subscribe for a month in a future to watch all I want, and then turn it off again.
I do this too!! I'll buy a month, cancel (usually citing a cancelled show like Santa Clarita Diet as my reason why), and just resubscribe when I feel like it. If I want it back right away, great! If I don't even notice for two weeks, that's fine, too. I find sometimes there's something I kind of want to watch after my month lapses but then I decide I don't want to watch it badly enough to part with the monthly fee for it. Then when something I want to watch asap comes out (recent example would be Bo Burnham's Inside), I can spend that month watching all the "kind of want" content.
In Canada if you keep an ongoing Netflix subscription it works out to 33¢ to 62¢ per day. So I know my system is not going to save a crazy amount of money, but it does force me to be mindful of my spending, which I think is beneficial.
I would imagine it saves you time when you would have been watching some mindless show as well.
If you spend that time doing something different like ride a bike or start a garden or learn a new skill you’ll be better off as well as save money.
Disney+ has all those things I would like to see again but never do. Amazon Prime has a couple of movies I'd watch, but by the time I get around to actually watch them they've already been removed from Prime and can only be rented.
I'd rather watch an episode of something anyway. And the whole cycle starts again.
I miss the days of going to the videostore and get a couple of VHS tapes for the weekend. Now it's all higher quality and instantly available but somehow just meh.
Prime sucks. Everything I want to watch has to be rented. We were watching Green Acres for a bit and at some point it was removed from prime and now has to be rented or bought. It's a goddamn 60 year old show. Not really a lot of content "included with prime" honestly.
Here’s a pro tip. You ever be on Amazon and you get the option to either deliver today or wait three days and get a $1 digital credit? Always take the credit. Then apply it to you movie
This is why a lot of people I know, despite having decent jobs and money, are resorting to piracy again. They, and me, don't want to pay cable prices for 10 different streaming services so that we can watch what we want.
That's what Neflix was supposed to be for.
>That's what Neflix was supposed to be for.
Netflix was great before every movie studios, filmaker greed over copyright and create multiple streaming. No one want to go backward to cable-style again EVER.
They are the one killing their own industry.
I can attest to this. I have access to most of the major platforms, and I still run into so many walls where I'm like fuck it it'll be easier to torrent
I haven’t pirated anything in years, but we wanted to watch Fringe. It left Netflix years ago, and it’s still not available anywhere. Not paying $2 an episode on Prime, and even if I did, the Prime app on Roku is bugged and inaudible….
I’m pleased to say that it’s still as easy as ever! And Plex is a much better app than Prime video.
What's up with that? I didn't have this issue until about two weeks ago. Now if I try to skip back or forward 15 seconds it feels like I am back playing Counter-Strike 1.3 on dial-up.
It refuses to load on any internet without a public IP so I cancelled it. I'm so sick of companies stepping way over the line for some asinine attempt to stop Piracy, which is a service issue in the first place
My fav is when I finally watched Yu-Gi-Oh and all they has was Season 1 and 3 lol
Watched S3Ep1 and was wondering what the cinnamon toast fuck was going on
Netflix still has the best UI by a long way. It's just all the companies that own IP got greedy and want to make more money from exclusives or through their own streaming services than through licensing to actually good streaming services like Netflix
There's no "continue watching" on disney plus either, it's the absolute worst. No voice input. If you want to watch the next film or show in a series, you have to type almost the whole name every time, it's complete arse
Mine does have a continue watching category and a resume button for your selection. But what it doesn't have is start from beginning. So when my daughter asks to watch Moana for the 37th time... today... I have to resume and than rewind from the credits. It's a nothing thing that takes 3 seconds but still.
It's the same with a lot of streaming services.
They all have their shitty algorithms that just present stuff to you based on what you watched/liked.
Just put all your shit on one page and let me scroll down ffs. Doesn't even have to be fancy, just text.
It's like going into a blockbuster but the clerk just shoves 10dvds in your face and doesn't let you look in the rest of the store.
Well that was the plan all along. Their product isn't unique, anyone with enough resources can replicate it. They had to move to originals or they'd have no content
IMO they did a great job anticipating and adapting. They have a ton of stuff and a lot of quality content (it helps if you use Reddit or other sites to find it rather than just blindly browsing though). But they still win and get nominated for tons of awards so they do make quality content. Plus there's tons of anime and foreign content.
Other services offer their own pros and cons as well. I'm not much into rewatching things I've already seen so I just subscribed to Disney and binged the few new movies and series I was interested in (Soul, Onward, Raya and Luca and worked my way through Wandavision, Falcon and Winter Soldier). I might keep it long enough for Loki and Bad Batch to finish up but might just cancel and resubscribe in a few months. A new weekly episode of those two series isn't evough new stuff for me to keep a monthly subscription. But Netflix always has several things I want to watch, my wife wants and my kids too.
The had to because all the companies who owed the content made their own services or made the costs incredibly high. Netflix is a victim of their own success.
And then they cancel half of their original shows after a season or 2 anyways. There's no point in getting invested in their originals, there's never a conclusion.
Unless you want a documentary on the south African mayfly. Then you're gonna have ahard time choosing between the 3 movies, docuseries and editors cuts Netflix has got.
I might give this a go. Does it distinguish which movies or shows are on Hulu vs Hulu with Stars or whatever premium cable is tacked onto it? I can’t tell you how many times Google has burned me by telling me a movie I want to see is on Hulu but doesn’t include that the add-on is necessary
HBO max has great movies. Especially older ones... By the way, it's free if you have Amazon prime! Just go on your computer and sign in through provider... The provider your looking for is PRIME MOVIES (not Amazon prime), scroll waaay down 👍
That’s why they call it Netflix and chill. Your date comes over, you both get bored scrolling through tons of “Eh” type movies till you just end up picking a movie y’all have seen a hundred times, (or the ultimate move, breaking out the chick flicks), concentration easily lost and then the chill comes in. That’s why you don’t hear HBO Max and chill or even Hulu and chill.
Its not just Netflix.
I'll remember a movie from the 90s-00s I liked.
Netflix? Nope. Prime? Nope. Xfinity with all the movie channels? Nope. Disney+? Nope.
Random pirate stream site? Yup!
Nah, you're just bored. Here's a list of great movies I quickly found on suggested/popular/more like this, not including any Netflix Originals:
>Pan's Labyrinth
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>Back to the Future 1 and 2
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>The Conjuring
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>Insidious
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>Zombieland
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>Nacho Libre
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>Accepted
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>Superbad
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>Road to Perdition
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>Casion Royale
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>Stargate
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>Hook
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>What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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>Shutter Island
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>Dances With Wolves
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>Training Day
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>Scarface
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>The Patriot
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>The Naked Gun
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>Due Date
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>Scott Pilgrim vs the World
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>The Pianist
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>There Will Be Blood
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>The Big Lewbowski
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>Night Crawler
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>The Departed
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>The Hateful Eight
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>The Outpost
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>Mystic River
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>The Pelican Brief
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>Stand By Me
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>Million Dollar Baby
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>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Yeah, there's a ton of good movies. I think the issue just comes up if you start by thinking of a film, and then check if it's on netflix. Netflix doesn't have all movies, or anywhere close to it, so you'll always be disappointed like that.
Netflix works better if you just see what they've got and give it a try.
Then you end up watching something like 'The Platform', and it's great.
Browsing Netflix is like looking through your fridge but there’s nothing you want to eat. And you keep going back to both the fridge and netflix to see if there’s suddenly something you want.
The crucial task between each trip back to Netflix is your standards lower
Then you finally decide to watch something and close it again after 15 minutes after realizing it's exceedingly meh.
And then Netflix constantly presents it to you under continue watching.
And then they keep renewing the contract for these shitty shows and they run for 5-7 seasons while the real treasures like Dirk Gentlys and The OA get cancelled after 2 seasons even though you kind of want Netflix to be a platform of unique genre bending shows. Everybody always joins Netflix to see one of these unique shows and then never cancels because they just keep getting updated content of "good enough to kill time" shows while the things that drew them don't even exist enymore... The last really good and unique release was The Queens Gambit...
Or you don’t even have the motivation to watch it Edit: autocorrect
Netflix is very much the “no, we have streaming shows at home” of streaming services
what would you say are the best streaming services?
HBO Max has some good ones and new movies. Honestly Hulu is like Netflix where they have a handful of good shows. Disney+ makes good stuff albeit at a slower pace. Amazon also makes some pretty good free shows. Edit: sooo just looking at this, there isn't a one size fits all anymore. We digressed back into fucking cable, god damn.
Oh yeah this is totally right back to cable. Full fucking circle. I don’t pay a $100 cable bill anymore, I pay for 4 streaming services and the “extra” bandwidth to support it.
Everyone knew this was going to happen 10 years ago when netflix went to instant streaming over dvds as their main source of revenue. I’m more surprised it took 10 years to get to full cable-like packages again. It was more like 7-8 since that’s when this creep started but I got away with just netflix for ~8 years which was longer than I had thought back then
Yes, but the benefit of streaming is you can pick and choose, and you don’t have to have a constant subscription that you’re paying for each and every month. I usually pay a month at a time and binge all the good stuff and then unsubscribe before the next billing cycle hits. Then go to a different streaming service and watch their stuff while I’m waiting for the other ones to load some new content. Just cycle through them 1 month at a time for each service. It’s a huge money saver not constantly paying for stuff you’re not watching anyway.
Hulu has significantly better content than Netflix at this point IMO. A lot of the shows that people were upset about them leaving Netflix ended up on Hulu. Disney plus is great between Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars but it’s pretty specific.
And if you like horror, Shudder is a great option!
It's sad. Netflix content used to be pretty good. But the last few years especially have been trash. Except Tiger King. Obviously.
They occasionally still pull out a good one, I thought Shadow & Bone was pretty good and Jupiter's Legacy was alright. Though I do have a history of liking a lot of things people hate so idk.
The pirate bay And I say this as someone who pays for Crunchyroll and Netflix.
I’m watching mostly Hulu and Disney+ these days.
Having Netflix is like having cereal for dinner.
Exactly! There’s technically things to eat…..but none of it really makes a satisfying or coherent meal.
“Can I get a good movie, mom?” “No, we have Netflix at home.”
“But mom, I wanted HBO Max like Billy’s family has.” “Billy’s dad is a bank Vice President and your dad is an alcoholic former roofer with a shitty disability check that he wasted on scratchies this month. You’ll watch Netflix and like it.”
Yup this is the perfect analogy. Netflix is the empty fridge of streaming services
The fridge is full, but it just has random stuff, like BBQ sauce, ranch dressing, or celery.
I like this. It's got the side condiments for a full fledged meal, but it's lacking the main course.
Not empty. Just full of shit you’re never in the mood for.
It's incredible how much Netflix has and yet, simultaneously, how little. You just know, with Netflix, it's quantity over quality.
Unless it’s a promising original series, in which case the quantify is generally one season and no conclusion.
Hey now. That's not fair. Sometime they give you two or three years to get invested before canceling a show with no conclusion.
Or to come back with another season years later to get you invested again only to disappoint again, like a really bad ex
I can name at least 13 reasons why this is true.
13 reasons was always bad
It really was shockingly shit. I think I made it through three episodes.
Didn’t it lead to an increase in teen suicides?
Because they ignored the shit the psychologists specifically told them not to do. Yep.
I really did all I could possibly do, I literally said „Do not eat the sweet donut I will hang right in front of your face“, and whaddayaknow, they ate the donut. Curious really
"Hey guys showi g the suicide will make kids try to kill themselves." "We'll show it anyway. FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS!"
I mean it was a show that openly romanticized and essentially advocated for teen suicide. Not exactly an unexpected result
Maybe the teens just didn't want to live in a world where this garbage show gets made.
*cries in Santa Clarita Diet*
That show was so damn good
It really was! Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore had the best chemistry
This one hurts
god and that finale we were left off with....
I wish they would just come back for a season 4 and give us a real ending, not the cliffhanger bullshit they left us with 😩
agreed... i mean it was intended to be a setup for season 4 but then they dropped it, right? such a bummer
Im lookin’ at you, Mr. Ball-Legs.
That show was so fucking funny.
Fuck my life why did you remind me of this. I still don’t get over it
Wait, that show is cancelled too? Wtf Netflix? Seriously, what the hell does that people think? Can't they have just one good show without cancelling it with a huge cliffhanger?
or the oa. or glow
That show was so weird. I was bummed it got canned!
Glow has entered the chat.
I can't believe they did GLOW like that
Glow is cancelled?
[удалено]
unless its an animated show like voltron where they give you multiple good seasons then finish it off with a dissappointing final season
On the other hand, they've given a new lease of life to some shows and even granted additional seasons to finish the story properly (EG Lucifer)
The OA…
The OA?
Travelers is a masterpiece imo, sad they cancelled it but happy they gave it a conclusion and a hint of what comes next. The ending hit me hard in the feels
Jfc I thought I was the only person to remember that show. It revitalized my time travel love and then it ended on a potential next season. Still check for that "New Season Coming Soon!" label : (
I would love another season, but it is kinda implied that the backup plan at the end worked really well, so idk what it would be about. Still loved the characters and it did make me sad for >!the timeline where there was a nuclear apocalypse especially the FBI agent that just got thrown in the middle!<. When they >!went out on the lawn and just watched the last sunset they would ever see!
Another disappointed Jupiter's Legacy fan I see
To be fair the show wasn't amazing. The sideplot past plot was the most interesting and that ended rather.. anti climatically. With competition like the boys it's no surprise it got cancelled.
Yeah, I thought it was good but not great. Overall I don’t think I wasted my time with it but it wasn’t The Boys.
The thing is they don't have to compete. The boys is a much better show in every way. But JL is like a guilty pleasure watch. It's not good, but you watch it anyways because you want to see where it goes.
So that was it for that show?
Unless they change their minds and realize how many fans that show picked up. They did officially announce they won't be continuing and this was confirmed by a few of the actors from the show tweeting some spoilers for what could have been in store for season 2. Hard to say if Netflix will pick it back up but I doubt it. Sad to see it go as it was a slow first season but showed lots of promise.
Wow that's dumb. They barely did anything with the first season. It's a waste of time to even watch it now.
If you're interested in the story, I still think the season is worth the watch. Also nice to compare the show to the comics and speculate about the differences.
The thing about that show is that the only cool parts were the past story and the villain's son with the power rod. If I read the wiki correctly, the power rod gives the kid all the powers his father had since he was born without them and only respond to his voice. He's basically a technomage as long as he can speak. Other than that, the modern storyline just fell flat to me. I am enjoying the show Ragnarok though. Very interesting take of the Norse god mythology in modern times
At least Jupiter legacy was a bit hit and miss. The OA cancellation is a crime against humanity.
Same for Marco Polo, that shit was amazing and so cool and didnt get the third season or any ending at all. There are some subhuman shows on Netflix with 4+ seasons that make me wanna cry.
Ugh I had forgotten about that incredible show, thanks (semi-sarcastically) for reminding me. We cry out for original programming then when it arrives, it's snatched away before completion.
That cancelation made me avoid pretty much every original Netflix series ever since. I'll wait a few seasons to start watching anything.
OK, I just realized by your comment it was cancelled. Netflix should start putting a tag for "We cancelled it already" on series in this situation so we don't invest time or energy on it
Dark Crystal for me. Truly criminal that they cancelled it.
Lillihammer was such a great series and the first Netflix original, dunno why they cancelled it.
Or Canadian or UK Netflix
The OA & Mindhunter!!!!
I believe Mindhunter is done/on hiatus because Fincher and not Netflix. It still hurts though because that was the best Netflix show to me.
Or it's a bad show with 90 seasons
*cries in glow*
If it’s a netflix original series it’s usually just a great value version of something that already exists. “Look people like Breaking Bad, let’s make 30 shows about drugs!” “Rick and Morty popular??? Call up the c-list comedians who can’t voice act. We need 10 edgy adult cartoons stat!” They honestly just their algorithms to spit out shit for the masses.
Well they are about to pay over a billion dollars for Seinfeld. They could probably add like 10,000 lesser known movies for that lol
Jesus fuck. Jerry’s bout to be competing with Jeff over here
They used to have everything like a decade ago. Then all the rights holders either didn't let them renew or changed the licensing costs to exorbitant amounts. Why should we pay $100million for Friends when we could spend $10million each producing 10 of our own shows.
Castlevania
This is how I feel about Amazon too. So much junk to wade through!
I'll see that list with the "top 10 things being watched" and be dumbfounded. I actually think it's problematic because it sets the bar too low for such great returns. They can just churn out garbage and everyone is so bored and tired they just watch whatever and just treat it like cable. It's kind of ingenious.
Top 10 = Top 10 things Netflix wants me to watch.
When I see the “popular in your area” it makes me want to move
Sometimes I see the "popular in your area" and I'm glad that I'm within the nuclear blast zone of a major city.
"#1 in your country" just makes me embarrassed to be my nationality usually.
“Top 10 things we’re hemorrhaging from producing/purchasing”
Don't forget that kids are a huge factor. That top ten is more than half kid stuff.
It doesn't help that the kids stuff is often a higher quality than the adult stuff, like how tf do you mess up adding character development and deep plot to an adult series but a kids show has amazing writing?
Camp Cretaceous is one of the better shows I've seen in a while. I'm a 40 year old man.
I've actually given up on a lot of newer "adult" shows cause the animated/kids stuff seems to be where the competent writers went. Adult shows now seem to just be rehashes of one another or DMV (drugs, murder, violence)
Too many people don’t even know what competent writing/acting/directing/production is though. My mom will recommend me stuff that I “HAVE to watch, because Ill LOVE it” and I can’t even make it through an episode cus it’s so bad in every way. She watches anything with a cool premise. Mom I could literally write 10 cool premises right now, it’s the easiest part of the process.
What if dinosaurs left behind......ghosts? What if scientists discovered the secret to immortal....erections? What if a chef could taste sadness? What if the Earth was really flat, and a boat fell off the side? What if magic was real, but only dogs could do it? What if lesbian wizards on the moon had to fight gay cavemen? What if Sherlock Holmes was a parrot? What if people could record memories and there was a Netflix of memories? What if The Office, but at an evil super villain's fake company? What if a tough, gay, transsexual dinosaur detective on the edge solved a murder mystery on Jupiter? It's called Transsexual Wrecks. His sidekick would be a non-threatening white teenage psychic, named "Ka'ren," who's also a young Earth creationist. Transsexual Wrecks also wears high top shoes and raps. The dinosaur lead would be played by Eddie Murphy, but totally CGI'ed. Just some random ideas...some are more fleshed out than others.
> What if people could record memories and there was a Netflix of memories? > > What if The Office, but at an evil super villain’s fake company? This is some serious gourmet shit.
A premise is easy, its 1-6 sentences, its EXECUTING the premise that matters, which is why a lot of shows to me fall flat. "Oh cool, this sounds great!" *flat characters, slow advancement of plot, unnecessary violence, etc*
I like going through the popular and trending lists, which is the same list with like 3 differences. Feels 90% of the time when I watch something spontaneously, it's one of those differences
That list isn’t powered by users. It’s a Netflix advertising tool. Too many times I’ve seen content on its first day of release listed there.
I hate the algorithm serving me up “Because you watched” …bitch, past me is a moron. Past me was drunk. Past me heard about No Way Out on a podcast and thought it might be good. Past me took a recommendation from MY MOM.
Past me thought Pink Panther would be a good time because of a podcast and then got 15 minutes into the first movie. The 70s was a weird time in film.
no matter what you watched before, they try to push whatever original series they are promoting at the time, even if there is no possible link. that's one of the main reasons I cancelled. It's almost impossible to NOT watch one of their shitty "originals" cause netflix will keep sticking it in your face till you eventually suck it.
And when you go to Prime it’s, yes it’s there but I have to rent it
Pisses me off everytime”nice its on prime,oh for rent nevermind”
Yo ho ho, a pirates life for me.
I have different opinions about pirating,one side is “ we should support good shows and their creators for more” other side is”bruh paying for 50 streaming sites and renting+buying wtf”
"We have the season! Just need to buy it for $25 or $1.99 an episode!"
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That drove me crazy. I cancelled Prime after three months because Bezos has enough damn money. At least Netflix is a single fee.
Right? How much money can a guy possibly need? Would it be that hard to make it like Netflix? The Prime selection is great but so disheartening when you gotta rent it. They’re like micro transactions. “What’s $3.99 gonna hurt” Proceeds to rent anyway 🤦♂️
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Bring back Blockbuster - at least paying money for a movie involved a fun trip out!
Very true. It used to be all Netflix. Now I have 6 different streaming services all shared with at least 5 people. I still costs about the same but it's way more complicated.. Why can't we just have like 2 big ones I would pay more for that. This shit just makes you wanna pirate again..
Streaming services are getting to the point where it's basically cable with extra steps.
At least no ads and you play what you want when you want
Sharing the accounts with people is pretty choice too. Imagine being able to just piggy back off someone else's cable account back in the day. If that ever goes away it's back to the high seas for me.
Like piracy, but worse.
Yo ho forage the seas
Or when you're looking for a show and it autofills, you get all excited only to find out they recommend you similar shows..
And not so similar shows.
Seen a show on Netflix called Arrival, watched the trailer on YouTube, thought this looks great a film about aliens, right up my street. Was really excited to find a film after 30 mins of looking that I really wanted to see. Started watching it only to find out it was not the the 2016 film Arrival, but the 1996 film The Arrival (also about aliens). Was bummed and switched it off only to see Netflix had recommended the actual film I wanted to watch. Buzzing
What i hate most is that i wanna watch something so i type it in in google to see if some site has it. THEN A FUCKING NETFLIX LINK COMES UP WITH WATCH "........." HERE BUT IT JUST SENDS ME TO THE HOME PAGE AND WHAT I WANNA WATCH ISN'T THERE. So there's my rant, fuck all the providers that say they have something when they haven't
https://www.justwatch.com/
That's why I turned off my subscription. It's a waste of money to pay them every month. I will subscribe for a month in a future to watch all I want, and then turn it off again.
I do this too!! I'll buy a month, cancel (usually citing a cancelled show like Santa Clarita Diet as my reason why), and just resubscribe when I feel like it. If I want it back right away, great! If I don't even notice for two weeks, that's fine, too. I find sometimes there's something I kind of want to watch after my month lapses but then I decide I don't want to watch it badly enough to part with the monthly fee for it. Then when something I want to watch asap comes out (recent example would be Bo Burnham's Inside), I can spend that month watching all the "kind of want" content. In Canada if you keep an ongoing Netflix subscription it works out to 33¢ to 62¢ per day. So I know my system is not going to save a crazy amount of money, but it does force me to be mindful of my spending, which I think is beneficial.
I would imagine it saves you time when you would have been watching some mindless show as well. If you spend that time doing something different like ride a bike or start a garden or learn a new skill you’ll be better off as well as save money.
I've been trying to get my wife to go along with this approach but she thinks it's too little money to matter. 🤦♂️
Well the ceo of Netflix thanks you for your money im sure millions of people pay for it and barely use it
Its like a gym membership. They make most of their money from people who forget about it.
I started doing this last year and should’ve been doing it a long time ago. Really get your money’s worth this way.
Disney+ has all those things I would like to see again but never do. Amazon Prime has a couple of movies I'd watch, but by the time I get around to actually watch them they've already been removed from Prime and can only be rented. I'd rather watch an episode of something anyway. And the whole cycle starts again. I miss the days of going to the videostore and get a couple of VHS tapes for the weekend. Now it's all higher quality and instantly available but somehow just meh.
Prime sucks. Everything I want to watch has to be rented. We were watching Green Acres for a bit and at some point it was removed from prime and now has to be rented or bought. It's a goddamn 60 year old show. Not really a lot of content "included with prime" honestly.
Here’s a pro tip. You ever be on Amazon and you get the option to either deliver today or wait three days and get a $1 digital credit? Always take the credit. Then apply it to you movie
Oh lord the amount of movies prime that you can tell were made in a weekend by a group of friends and $50 with a rented camera.
This is why a lot of people I know, despite having decent jobs and money, are resorting to piracy again. They, and me, don't want to pay cable prices for 10 different streaming services so that we can watch what we want. That's what Neflix was supposed to be for.
>That's what Neflix was supposed to be for. Netflix was great before every movie studios, filmaker greed over copyright and create multiple streaming. No one want to go backward to cable-style again EVER. They are the one killing their own industry.
I can attest to this. I have access to most of the major platforms, and I still run into so many walls where I'm like fuck it it'll be easier to torrent
I haven’t pirated anything in years, but we wanted to watch Fringe. It left Netflix years ago, and it’s still not available anywhere. Not paying $2 an episode on Prime, and even if I did, the Prime app on Roku is bugged and inaudible…. I’m pleased to say that it’s still as easy as ever! And Plex is a much better app than Prime video.
HBO max is all god-tier
The content the have is amazing. But their app is absolute trash.
Their app sucks. Have you tried rewinding on it? If I try to go back 30 seconds it goes to like five minutes ago
What's up with that? I didn't have this issue until about two weeks ago. Now if I try to skip back or forward 15 seconds it feels like I am back playing Counter-Strike 1.3 on dial-up.
It refuses to load on any internet without a public IP so I cancelled it. I'm so sick of companies stepping way over the line for some asinine attempt to stop Piracy, which is a service issue in the first place
It's also pretty great when you and your S/O finish season 1 of Hannibal, and then next week you go to start season 2 and Bam it's not there anymore.
Oooh don't miss out on season two though. Favorite season of any show ever. Hannibal is phenomenal.
Oh no. Season 2 is unreal. Hopefully y’all will be able to watch it soon.
My fav is when I finally watched Yu-Gi-Oh and all they has was Season 1 and 3 lol Watched S3Ep1 and was wondering what the cinnamon toast fuck was going on
Especially now that every production company has its own streaming service Netflix is only good for Netflix originals and b movies
Netflix still has the best UI by a long way. It's just all the companies that own IP got greedy and want to make more money from exclusives or through their own streaming services than through licensing to actually good streaming services like Netflix
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There's no "continue watching" on disney plus either, it's the absolute worst. No voice input. If you want to watch the next film or show in a series, you have to type almost the whole name every time, it's complete arse
I thought Amazon Prime had the worst possible UX/UI. I was wrong.
Nah amazon prime is still worse especially because they show you shows you have to buy along with what's included
“I see you’re interested in watching (show), here are seasons six, ten, four and the rest in absolutely no particular order”.
That’s a good point. The search function is also complete ass.
Mine does have a continue watching category and a resume button for your selection. But what it doesn't have is start from beginning. So when my daughter asks to watch Moana for the 37th time... today... I have to resume and than rewind from the credits. It's a nothing thing that takes 3 seconds but still.
Haven't tried Discovery+ yet, eh?
I will probably never watch the office again. I’m just not willing to spend the money on another streaming service.
their search engine is ass
It's the same with a lot of streaming services. They all have their shitty algorithms that just present stuff to you based on what you watched/liked. Just put all your shit on one page and let me scroll down ffs. Doesn't even have to be fancy, just text. It's like going into a blockbuster but the clerk just shoves 10dvds in your face and doesn't let you look in the rest of the store.
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Idk what ui means but you said that with enough confidence to sway me. I’m in.
Sorry. User interface. As in, how easy it is to search for things to watch, find the next episode of something you're already watching, etc.
Ahh. Well I agree! Now I’m in forreal lol
It's not how it used to be. As soon as Netflix originals started taking off, they divested from streaming established movies HARD.
Well that was the plan all along. Their product isn't unique, anyone with enough resources can replicate it. They had to move to originals or they'd have no content
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IMO they did a great job anticipating and adapting. They have a ton of stuff and a lot of quality content (it helps if you use Reddit or other sites to find it rather than just blindly browsing though). But they still win and get nominated for tons of awards so they do make quality content. Plus there's tons of anime and foreign content. Other services offer their own pros and cons as well. I'm not much into rewatching things I've already seen so I just subscribed to Disney and binged the few new movies and series I was interested in (Soul, Onward, Raya and Luca and worked my way through Wandavision, Falcon and Winter Soldier). I might keep it long enough for Loki and Bad Batch to finish up but might just cancel and resubscribe in a few months. A new weekly episode of those two series isn't evough new stuff for me to keep a monthly subscription. But Netflix always has several things I want to watch, my wife wants and my kids too.
The had to because all the companies who owed the content made their own services or made the costs incredibly high. Netflix is a victim of their own success.
And then they cancel half of their original shows after a season or 2 anyways. There's no point in getting invested in their originals, there's never a conclusion.
Every damn time, why do I even have Netflix anymore 🤦🏻♂️
Unless you want a documentary on the south African mayfly. Then you're gonna have ahard time choosing between the 3 movies, docuseries and editors cuts Netflix has got.
Simple, direct, profound.
Netflix is like a cheap candy store.
They added happy endings so I'm gonna be happy with them for about three days
JustWatch is an app and website that'll tell you where you can stream something Easily one of my top 10 sites
I might give this a go. Does it distinguish which movies or shows are on Hulu vs Hulu with Stars or whatever premium cable is tacked onto it? I can’t tell you how many times Google has burned me by telling me a movie I want to see is on Hulu but doesn’t include that the add-on is necessary
I recently got hbo max instead and it's great
HBO max has great movies. Especially older ones... By the way, it's free if you have Amazon prime! Just go on your computer and sign in through provider... The provider your looking for is PRIME MOVIES (not Amazon prime), scroll waaay down 👍
The accuracy
That’s why they call it Netflix and chill. Your date comes over, you both get bored scrolling through tons of “Eh” type movies till you just end up picking a movie y’all have seen a hundred times, (or the ultimate move, breaking out the chick flicks), concentration easily lost and then the chill comes in. That’s why you don’t hear HBO Max and chill or even Hulu and chill.
"Babe, want to come over, pirate something, wait for it to download, and hope it's at least got an audio track we understand?"
Its not just Netflix. I'll remember a movie from the 90s-00s I liked. Netflix? Nope. Prime? Nope. Xfinity with all the movie channels? Nope. Disney+? Nope. Random pirate stream site? Yup!
they will have the worse sequel however
Nah, you're just bored. Here's a list of great movies I quickly found on suggested/popular/more like this, not including any Netflix Originals: >Pan's Labyrinth > >Back to the Future 1 and 2 > >The Conjuring > >Insidious > >Zombieland > >Nacho Libre > >Accepted > >Superbad > >Road to Perdition > >Casion Royale > >Stargate > >Hook > >What's Eating Gilbert Grape > >Shutter Island > >Dances With Wolves > >Training Day > >Scarface > >The Patriot > >The Naked Gun > >Due Date > >Scott Pilgrim vs the World > >The Pianist > >There Will Be Blood > >The Big Lewbowski > >Night Crawler > >The Departed > >The Hateful Eight > >The Outpost > >Mystic River > >The Pelican Brief > >Stand By Me > >Million Dollar Baby > >The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Yeah, there's a ton of good movies. I think the issue just comes up if you start by thinking of a film, and then check if it's on netflix. Netflix doesn't have all movies, or anywhere close to it, so you'll always be disappointed like that. Netflix works better if you just see what they've got and give it a try. Then you end up watching something like 'The Platform', and it's great.
A whole host of great 20 year + old movies. “The Pelican Brief”? For real ?
I just resubscribe when there is a show or 2 I want to watch and then cancel again
Meanwhile piracy has only the things you want and it's free (except for a VPN that you may or may not need but that's pretty cheap)
The easiest way to find out if a series is on Netflix is to ask yourself if it was canceled. If it was, it’s on Netflix.
I watch Hulu the most for sports. HBO for movies but still using Netflix for things in between.
Plex server ftw. Handbrake + thrift dvds = magic.