Netflix launches Play Something, a viewing mode that gives a more TV-like feel

I guess we all have to settle more more tricks to get us to watch whatever bad-to-middle reality show they've launched this week. Less glibly, I would actually be interested in this feature if I didn't feel like Netflix's recommendations to me are so bad for me. I've felt this way since the rating scale change, but I can't honestly say that was the cause. It's more likely a result of increased Netflix-produced content, which by-and-large I find uncompelling (with documentaries being an exception).

Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is.

My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.

1) Genre channels. Each channel is a stream of trailers with information about the film too, so you can quickly figure out if you like or don’t like it, without having to scroll around

2) Consider adding a reviews channel for each genre too, talk me through some of these shows