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What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

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Post by olyjohn »

HenryBemis wrote: post #172
wmil wrote: post #163

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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)

Dude. It blows my mind there are over 25 episodes per season of most of the older series. I know most of the series had rough starts, but they really get good in the later seasons. I tried to tell someone to just watch it, and tell them how in Season 3 or 4 it gets really good. That means, you just gotta watch 50-75 episodes to get to the good stuff. LOL. That doesn't seem to convince anybody.

I mean, personally I love the early episodes just as much. But trying to get other people into it hasn't been successful for me.

Also I love starting on a long binge. There are hundreds and hundreds of episodes to watch! Peak Star Trek for me is DS9 when they start to get heavy into the Dominion war. Sisko is such a badass. He's my favorite Captain.

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Dig1t wrote: post #83
andrei_says_ wrote: post #80

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It’s nerdy and pedantic and I like seeing that part of me made fun of.

I really love the show, I think it's a combination of likable characters and feeling special when you understand a physics/chemistry/scifi etc reference. It makes you feel smart because you are in on the references that the smart people are making.

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Post by [deleted] »

tempusr wrote: post #128
Dig1t wrote: post #83

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I really love the show, I think it's a combination of likable characters and feeling special when you understand a physics/chemistry/scifi etc reference. It makes you feel smart because you are in on the references that the smart people are making.

Sure, but the show displays toxic masculinity as a dorky thing that "nerds" just do. Overall, I believe the show is a terrible role model for how men who are in STEM fields should behave to others who do not fit the stereotype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4

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Post by myclup1109 »

teej wrote: post #35

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…

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Post by humanrebar »

muzani wrote: post #218
mensetmanusman wrote: post #175

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We could be so much wealthier!!

Sometimes I sit and think about how one of the highest paying companies in the world sells unproductivity as a service. There's free options for entertainment like YouTube too.

Could be worse. Other companies sell diabetes, lung cancer, and debt.

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Post by humanrebar »

wmil wrote: post #166
firecall wrote: post #145

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I thought the live action One Piece was amazing! My 14 year old boy loves One Piece anime, so we watched it together so I could see what it was all about. It’s a surprising substantial TV show in its own right, and for once a fantasy TV is just good fun without trying to hard to be serious drama.

One interesting difference is that in the TV show Luffy has a friendly smile on most of the time. In the anime Luffy runs around with a wide eyed unblinking psychopathic stare.

Also less objectification of women in the update.

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Post by haydenchambers »

xarope wrote: post #201
S04dKHzrKT wrote: post #124

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I'd say give Breaking Bad a try. It regularly comes up in "Best TV Show of All Time" conversations.

Based on the synopsis, I expected to NOT like Breaking Bad, but Bryan Cranston's performance was superb. I will never be able to see another Los Pollos Hermanos with a straight face again.

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Post by Unfrozen0688 »

firecall wrote: post #139
goenning wrote: post #47

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Friends (1994) is still going strong

Probably a bounce due to the sad passing of Matthew Perry. :-(

No... its a staple "background show" like having Seinfeld on in the background while you work or do chores.

You are baslessly guessing

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Post by j7ake »

rasz wrote: post #181
j7ake wrote: post #161

Read the top 10 list, and I haven’t heard of any of these shows. Is the world segregating such that there are fewer shared activities in a community to talk about? Growing up 30 years ago, everybody knew the top 5 TV shows even if you didn’t watch them: they were the topic of conversations or at least listed in thr “TV guides”

>everybody knew the top 5 TV shows even if you didn’t watch them as defined by Nielsen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research#Ratings... 1980 1,700 audiometer homes and a rotating board of nearly 850 diary respondents 1985 Nielsen meters TV viewing in more than 5,500 U.S. homes 2003 Nielsen doubles its national TV sample from 5,000 to 10,000 U.S. households 2014 Nielsen has installed electronic devices…

It’s not just about how many people watched certain TV shows, it is that people who didn’t own or watch TV would know about such shows through daily conversations.

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Post by andra_nl »

greesil wrote: post #147
vinaypai wrote: post #88

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Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.

Lamenting the future of humanity is a time honored pastime.

So is asserting that everyone is crazy, except you. :P
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