alt Hacker NewsI remember signing up to Netflix to watch house of cards back in the early 2010s and being absolutely blown away.
I don’t think there’s been a single show on Netflix I’ve genuinely looked forward to in the past couple of years. It’s like they completely gave up on quality content and just shovel out the most mediocre slop. I’m amazed people still pay these ever increasing prices.
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I am still trying to recover from whatever Witcher season 3 broke in my brain by its audaciously low quality.
I was kicked out of the suspension of disbelief so hard I can't unsee things about the production process now, like makeup, continuity, costuming, sound design.
It was like the whole crew from script to editor just gave up, totally bizarre for headliner content.
Severance (Apple TV) and Fallout (Amazon Prime) are pretty amazing TV shows that came out somewhat recently. Nothing on top of my mind came out of Netflix for which I really felt the need of resubscribing.
I miss the quality of TV shows we reached with Mr. Robot, Silicon Valley, Utopia (UK), and Westworld :(
In the early days, Netflix benefited from other media companies not recognizing streaming for what it was: their replacement. They licensed content to Netflix cheaply without thinking about how it would impact DVD sales or cable tv subscriptions.
It's kinda like how IBM didn't see the value in software and that let Microsoft become Microsoft.