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Between the Marvel shows, House of Cards, Longmire, Orange is the New Black, Bloodline, Sense8, Narcos, The Get Down, Stranger Things, A Series of Unfortunate Events, 13 Reasons Why, Master of None, Grace & Frankie, Love, Dear White People, et al, the viewing landscape of Netflix is indeed very different than what it was 2 years ago.

I remember rarely launching the Netflix app for a long, long time, and constantly debating whether or not to maintain my subscription, and then they started releasing "original(ish)" content that, frankly, was pretty damn compelling.

I still go through spurts where I find difficulty finding something I want to watch right now, but recently, I'm finding that's less and less Netflix's fault relative to the other cable-cutting services.

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You listed a dozen or more tv shows and other original content Netflix has but the problem for me is I would probably be interested in maybe 3-4 of those max so I'd subscribe and after several months of watching the shows on weekends and evenings after work I'd run out of content.

So it doesn't continually make sense for me to keep paying Netflix every month when I can subscribe for 3 months every 2 years and watch the content I like. Then cancel subscription and switch to HBO/Amazon for 3 months and catch up with my favourite content there.

It's much more economical than being subscribed to all 3 at the same time. And any single of these services does not generate enough content for me to keep me interested long term.

It's well documented that the overall catalog is shrinking (http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-catalog-size-shrinks-...) and has been for some time.

You can't replace quality content with mediocre netflix originals. At best, 4 or 5 of those you listed are watchable, while the rest are just space fillers, trying to distracted from the loss of a huge number of popular shows.

Hulu, Amazon, HBO, etc all provide more quality content per dollar than Netflix at this point.

This is true, there are movies that used to be available on Netflix last time I was subscribed (mostly some old classics which I enjoyed rewatching from time to time) which have since been removed from the catalogue.

Another issue is outside of US the catalogue is very small. I was living in UK at the time I subscribed to Netflix and the catalogue was much smaller than US one.

I wish Netflix had Mr Robot and The Expanse.

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