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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    i’ve never bought netflix and went to visit some friends who had it. since they sleep until noon i had the morning to kill so i tried the netflix-- reminded me of the old days of flipping through hundreds of tv channels trying to find something to watch and finding nothing. “people pay for this shit?” was the initial thought

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      4 months ago

      There is so much fucking nothing on Netflix.

      There was something called Car Crash: Who’s Lying on the list the other day, and from the description and image, it genuinely looks like a police training video that accidentally made it’s way onto a mainstream streaming service.

      Their documentaries are all utter dogshit as well, designed for people with an IQ of 80.

      The only things still going for it are Mike Flanagan’s stuff, 15 seasons of Taskmaster and the odd horror movie that I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. As good as Jellyfin is, it doesn’t really have much in the way of recommendations.

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        4 months ago

        15 seasons of Taskmaster

        fwiw, their official channel has uploaded 17 series of TMUK on youtube to date. along with all the three CoCs as well as numerous new year special one-offs, 2 series of TMNZ with the 3rd being released weekly, 1 series of TMAU, and full series of some scandinavian taskmasters.

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        4 months ago

        It’s because netflix’ strategy has been to use the vast amounts of analytics they have to design shows that are so incredibly specialized and focused on targeting unseen metrics that they are entirely devoid of substance.

        Even buying into their logic that one could do that, they essentially overfit the data. Find a trend? More trend more betterer more moneyer. Doesn’t work very well.

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      4 months ago

      Another really frustrating thing for me is it’s never obvious what language anything is in until you start watching it. Sometimes not until a few minutes in. Even if it’s dubbed or has decent subtitles, some things just don’t translate well to English (usually humor), so there’s a lot of shows I’m interested in watching but I just don’t “get” if that makes sense.