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Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
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That is not as good of an argument as you think it is. > The only reason Chapelle is on Netflix is because one of the CEOs is a huge fan. There was a lot of internal pushback. In other words, CEO endorses and demands a "comedian" who punches down on __other minorities__, and somehow Netflix is "woke".
The exception that proves the rule. I reject the concept of 'punching down' in comedy. Either a joke is funny or it isn't. Nothing else matters.
That would be great ... if human interactions happened in a vacuum then sure, nothing matters. But that is not how humans work. Every interaction matters, every interaction affects our brains, affects what we think is right and wrong.
You are free to reject everything, and anything, does not mean reality will bend to your will.
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#423After years of ignoring Netflix I love derry girls and the viking shows
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> Orange is the new black, daredevil, house of cards were all big hits. The original version of House of Cards was a four episode mini-series. There was a lesson there that Netflix chose to ignore.
> There was a lesson there that Netflix chose to ignore. What is it? Network television spent decades milking shows way past their expiration dates and still made bank. The Office was originally a 14-episode arc built to an actual conclusion and NBC made who knows how much with middling season after season of the US version. People watched because we're creatures of habit and you only have to get us hooked once. That…
Well but House of Cards had such a ridiculous tension arc, that you _really_ couldn't extend it past 3 seasons. And if you try it just gets absurd and nobody can stay emerged anymore. Add to that, that you suddenly need to deal with "you are not allowed to use Spacey anymore" and the attempt to push "women for every job" you end up with a predictable disaster. But even if either wouldn't have happened: They didn't have the writers to keep writing the same quality
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I had CuriosityStream for a year, and used it for about two weeks. It's also just formulaic drivel accompanied by stock B-roll. My day is much better, and bears more fruit, when I don't waste any of it in front of a TV.
Yeah, I am little confused by all of this as well. Maybe because I don't "stream". But from the article: > “We have to have an Adam Project and a Bridgerton every month and to make sure that that’s the expectation of the service constantly,” he said. Are there people to watch an "Adam Project" and a "Bridgerton" (I assume these are interesting shows) every month? Are there people that are some kind of stream-receptac…
Bridgerton is middling costume, fine for insomnia
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#426This isn't technically, it's content creation. An ancient business, and its hard to scale. Get the right magic group of executives who get lucky buying the right properties and you are a hero. Miss, and a bunch of HN users are actively angry with you.
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#427I hate it when people who have no context of the economy throws in the stock price as a point of data. Author is clearly bias. What tech stock has not plummeted in the last few months? If you want to include financial data maybe consider that Walmart and Target both had lower profits, lower revenue resuting their stock price plummeted the most in decades? What "bad habits" do they have? Target and Walmart are bellwet…
Wasn't able to edit my original comment - wanted to clarify their revenue increased year over year, but missed expectation.
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They were probably fooled by metrics. People were watching the crap, so it looked like crap was good enough (until it wasn’t).
Yes! It takes so much more to gain the kind of insight that is valuable for film/art. And it is very difficult to scale. I thought they were onto something when they were experimenting with the gamified Black Mirror stuff because A) it implied something totally new and proprietary in the artform and B) it could probably lead to more information and more feedback all around. Also, they never even tried to build any so…
Netflix viewers used to be really good at rating movies and then getting recommendations based on those ratings. The Netflix ratings actually meant something once upon a time.
And then, one day, Netflix just got rid of this.
I’m still awestruck by the fact that they had this incredible and free source of data and they just relieved themselves of it.
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#429“Content is King” We all know this, Netflix knows this. And yet for some reason for years they have been aiming for quantity and not quality. Money is not enough in this department and baseball metaphors don’t do justice illustrating just how hard it is to put together a team that has that special thing going on. Some would argue it’s impossible - teams like the one behind Better Call Saul are just extremely rare and…
I think they realized a few years back that HBO, Disney and the other major IP holders will be pulling out entirely and setting up their own streaming services, not because Netflix didn't give them a big enough cut of the pie, but simply because they saw how well Netflix did and realized that tech was no longer an issue they'd work hard to resolve in 2020+. Once Netflix saw that on the horizon, they went into panic m…
Arguably, MLB Advanced Media killed Netflix by commodifying streaming tech.
Using MLBAM, any company could set up high quality streaming services cheaply and instantly.
For example, WWE went from announcing they would be creating a streaming service to actually delivering a highly successful and glitch free one within months.
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The exception that proves the rule. I reject the concept of 'punching down' in comedy. Either a joke is funny or it isn't. Nothing else matters.
That would be great ... if human interactions happened in a vacuum then sure, nothing matters. But that is not how humans work. Every interaction matters, every interaction affects our brains, affects what we think is right and wrong. You are free to reject everything, and anything, does not mean reality will bend to your will.
Your ideology =/= reality. Goodbye.