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Netflix’s Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here to Stay (www.wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Netflix is the new Fox OTA channel. Just missing the infomercials at 3am.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sssshhh dont give them ideas…

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I might just watch them if they did. Miss those shark vacuum cleaner commercials, Ron popeil gadgets and completely bogus fitness items.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah thos sit on ur ass and get a sixpack things. Did see a lot of those, while drinking a six pack to be honest.

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 1 points 11 months ago

Ninjaaaaaaaa

[–] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Just okay TV is here to stay

Is this news to literally anyone? Just okay TV has been a mainstay for my entire 30+ year life. How do you think shit like the masked singer, the seventh spinoff of NCIS, 18 law and orders, the voice, basically all reality TV, etc stay in the air so long? Recycled scripts, easy to make, low production costs. They don't need a lot of viewers. They only need enough viewers to glue eyes to the product/ads. In Netflix case it's not ads (yet...just wait), but every Mary and Jim that will watch easy to make trash just to have something on is a Mary and Jim that they can rely on to keep paying their subscription fee. The people that will consume just okay trash are the PRIMARY demographic for most content creators of all types, make no mistake.

[–] neocamel@lemmy.studio 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man I'm like an inch away from dropping Netflix. I've had it since it was DVDs, but the price keeps going up, and the value keeps going down.

[–] fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Just do it, see how it feels. It's easy to come back later when you want to.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Whatever, I enjoyed TF out of Night Agent, Netflix might suck in a lot of ways, but not everyone is going to like the same stuff.

[–] Dethedrus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Hard agree. Netflix sucks in a myriad of ways, but The Night Agent isn't one of them.