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What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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I wonder what else humanity would have done with those 100 billion hours if it were not for Netflix.

Background shows are common when people need to do an uninteresting task.

It's not even new. They used to hire people to read stories out loud while workers rolled cigars.

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> The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000 That is just depressing IMO.. I don't understand the appeal to that show..

It's a warm show about people who care about each other where the drama comes from social misunderstandings. The initial pilot featured a more conniving Penny played by a different actress. The focus group feedback was "Someone keep that mean girl away from those sweet boys". Think of it as a show for moms / grandmothers / aunts of nerdy men. They want to see them get up so some shenanigans but generally be OK. It's…

> you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things.

Nobody asked, but my thing to watch like this is everything-Star-Trek (TOS, TNG, V, Ent, etc. including the movies)

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93,455,200,000 total hours viewed from January to June 2023. Some quick math says that at any give time, 1 out of every 400 people is actively watching Netflix.

The quick math doesn't capture that not every hour viewed is an actively viewed hour.

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> The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000 That is just depressing IMO.. I don't understand the appeal to that show..

Wow, that’s a cumulative 47,990 years.

We could be so much wealthier!!

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I noticed that the watchtime of `You` was split half-and-half between the new season 4 and the prior seasons 1-3. I was curious about the total results by show, including all seasons. Here's the top 25: TITLE TOTAL HRS WATCHED ----- ----------------- Ginny & Georgia 967,200,000 The Night Agent 812,100,000 You 766,300,000 Outer Banks 740,400,000 The Walking Dead 738,600,000 The Glory 622,800,000 La Reina del Sur 616,8…

Suits is still huge... I still wonder why all the MM hate. The show isn't unpopular and definitely not because of her.

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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)

...and that was after 11 seasons!

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I noticed that the watchtime of `You` was split half-and-half between the new season 4 and the prior seasons 1-3. I was curious about the total results by show, including all seasons. Here's the top 25: TITLE TOTAL HRS WATCHED ----- ----------------- Ginny & Georgia 967,200,000 The Night Agent 812,100,000 You 766,300,000 Outer Banks 740,400,000 The Walking Dead 738,600,000 The Glory 622,800,000 La Reina del Sur 616,8…

For scale, 100M hours is about 143 lifetimes.

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Crazy to see The Witcher Season 2 (renewed), Sandman (renewed) and 1899 (cancelled) so closely grouped.

They even cancelled Shadow and Bone. S2 is at position 32 with 192M hours viewed.

A spinoff for the Crows was even in the works, which was also canceled.

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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…

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)

And it's still one of the best pieces of television ever made. My own personal canon would be that, _Ozymandias_ (Breaking Bad), _The Pine Barrens_ (The Sopranos), and honorable mention to the finale of _Blackadder_. What's anyone else's nominations?
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