> Simply put, Netflix (and its imitators) produce too many TV shows that are too good—and too easy to binge.
I find most shows on Netflix to not be that good. I drop them within minutes.
I find most shows on Netflix to not be that good. I drop them within minutes.
Edit: With more thought this might be the same thing to the consumer actually. They don't care how good the average TV show is, just how engrossing the hours of TV they watch every day is. With so much content it's never been easier to make those hours engrossing to you, even if it feels like the average / median TV show isn't really improving and possibly getting much worse.
There are a lot of people out there, and Netflix is like a catalog of the different kinds of things they can want. It's hard producing content that hits me personally where I live, and I'm always grateful when they do. It happens a few times a year.
I'm glad other people are also getting their stuff. Clearly a lot of people are finding enough to make them happy. I'm sure Netflix would love to produce more shows that manage to hit a wide range of people. I think that they did bottle such lightning again with Queen's Gambit.
It might also be because I used to have better access to arthouse cinemas that played more experimental, independent titles, while now I'm at the mercy of whatever is available on streaming services. So I end up just supplementing that by watching weird stuff on YouTube, which is somewhat suboptimal.
Just saying that, because there still are some art houses here (although not sure if that's still the case post-corona), but most of their films don't intrigue me. Sometimes they do, and I'm always a bit bummed to see that the venues are half-empty when I go.