I struggle to remember hardly anything memorable from Netflix, especially their movies, despite that amount of investment.
K-Pop Demon Hunters, what else? The rest is mostly if not all slop. Even looking now at their top 10 most popular movies we have a generic Rock movie in second place
While not "fully" Netflix original (having been picked up by Netflix from Fox I think after season 2 or 3), Lucifer was a great series and without Netflix we would have never gotten an ending for it. They did right by that show in my book and it saddens me that since those days, the quality and care put into what they produce just fell off a cliff. It's honestly gross how much money was wasted on all this new junk designed to be algorithmically enticing so much so that even after you watch it and tell yourself it was garbage, you still find yourself going back and hoping this time will be different.
Entertainment media used to at the very least masquerade as Art. Unfortunately it seems the desire for money eventually ruins all good things.
I really enjoy The Diplomat, which is also widely praised for the acting and writing. Aside that there are a number of great cooking and foodie shows on Netflix.
Netflix generated $39 billion in revenue in 2024 - I would not doubt that on all the internal productions the accounts are renting the studio lot / cameras / crew / marketing / renting the netflix jet etc at premium rates from the parent company.
the mind boggles what those numbers could actually build (as in actual physical construction) and yet here we are with so much „entertainment“ options we can‘t decide what to watch.
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[ 7.4 ms ] story [ 30.2 ms ] threadK-Pop Demon Hunters, what else? The rest is mostly if not all slop. Even looking now at their top 10 most popular movies we have a generic Rock movie in second place
When folks come home from a hard day of work they don't want HBO.
For me there have been a few movies, off the top of my head:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_the_Dark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irishman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraction_(2020_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Thinking_of_Ending_Things
In addition the first seasons of The Witcher and Altered Carbon, and the show Dark.
I canceled my subscription around 2020 though, got so fed up by the UX, so haven't watched much since.
Entertainment media used to at the very least masquerade as Art. Unfortunately it seems the desire for money eventually ruins all good things.
Netflix generated $39 billion in revenue in 2024 - I would not doubt that on all the internal productions the accounts are renting the studio lot / cameras / crew / marketing / renting the netflix jet etc at premium rates from the parent company.