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What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by neogodless »

Kye wrote: post #90
jl6 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people. It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference. Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore. Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because the…

Stuff that comes out weekly seems to do better on cultural impact. ~Everyone's seen the Invincible memes.[0][1] I see What We Do In The Shadows references all the time.[2] There are a few shows I've never watched, but know bits and pieces about through stuff like this. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-what-they-need-to-mimic-... [2] https://knowyo…

I have not seen the Invincible memes.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by Kye »

Tadpole9181 wrote: post #86
jl6 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people. It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference. Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore. Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because the…

Less pessimistically, we now have content for a broader diversity of tastes - greater than ever before. As a result, people can choose to watch shows socially with friends, as well as have content just for themselves. And consuming that content can lead to finding new social groups based on shared interests, if they do desire. I find the diatribe of "things got better, we got worse" so... boring and antisocial? You n…

What We Do In The Shadows is extremely queer and has managed to develop significant reach, and that makes me happy. I thought some of the jokey bi stuff in the first season would be throwaway like usual, but they keep dialing it up.

The writers are very well-versed in the vampire meta, and it shows.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by Kye »

neogodless wrote: post #91
Kye wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stuff that comes out weekly seems to do better on cultural impact. ~Everyone's seen the Invincible memes.[0][1] I see What We Do In The Shadows references all the time.[2] There are a few shows I've never watched, but know bits and pieces about through stuff like this. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-what-they-need-to-mimic-... [2] https://knowyo…

I have not seen the Invincible memes.

That's the neat part, you have now.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#94

Post by chihuahua »

aidenn0 wrote: post #42

I have a Netflix subscription. I have watched exactly 0 hours total of the items called out in TFA; am I out of touch? Am I missing something of particular cultural value?

You may want to give "Breaking Bad" a try - watch the first season to see if you enjoy it.

I'm not sure if it qualifies as "cultural value" but many critics like it. I liked it too, even though I hate almost everything. It has some good acting and writing, and a compelling storyline.

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Post by shoelessone »

Tomis02 wrote: post #67

Slightly related. Netflix is that company that doesn't provide English subtitles in Australia (unless the movie/show's original language is not English), and possibly other native English countries as well. They do provide closed captions however, so that we get helpful captions such as " loud urinating sounds ".

Possibly unrelated but similar idea at least: in Japan a lot of the Japanese TV shows I watch don't have English subtitles available, but in the US the same shows on Netflix do have English subtitles. I don't fully understand the reasoning for this on Netflix's side.

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by alexpotato »

jl6 wrote: post #24
drexlspivey wrote: post #4

I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50

Stephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people. It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference. Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore. Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because the…

Good time to mention that 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of MASH.

To this day it's still in the top 10 of most viewed television events with the other being primarily sports events (e.g. Super Bowl etc)

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Post by ghshephard »

drexlspivey wrote: post #4

I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50

I don't watch any TV, with a few exception for prestige shows that everyone else is watching - and I recognized a lot on that list - Walking Dead, Suits, Grey's Anatony, Gilmore Girls, Breaking Bad (which I've watched), Friends, Lucifer, Big Bang Theory.

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Post by aidenn0 »

chihuahua wrote: post #94
aidenn0 wrote: post #42

I have a Netflix subscription. I have watched exactly 0 hours total of the items called out in TFA; am I out of touch? Am I missing something of particular cultural value?

You may want to give "Breaking Bad" a try - watch the first season to see if you enjoy it. I'm not sure if it qualifies as "cultural value" but many critics like it. I liked it too, even though I hate almost everything. It has some good acting and writing, and a compelling storyline.

I've seen the first episode of that; I should note that it was not called out in TFA ("C-f breaking" at least shows no hits).

Re: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

#99

Post by ghshephard »

Kye wrote: post #90
jl6 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people. It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference. Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore. Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because the…

Stuff that comes out weekly seems to do better on cultural impact. ~Everyone's seen the Invincible memes.[0][1] I see What We Do In The Shadows references all the time.[2] There are a few shows I've never watched, but know bits and pieces about through stuff like this. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-what-they-need-to-mimic-... [2] https://knowyo…

Given that I subscribe to meme groups, participate in #meme slack groups - and am bombarded by memes incessantly in twitter - I was surprised to see that I didn't recognize any of your memes.
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