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I have found the vast majority of Netflix's original content from the last couple years to be pretty much uniformly awful. I really don't know why I have stayed a subscriber given that I almost never watch it and already have Amazon Prime Video "for free" and also YouTube Premium (which btw is a much, much better value proposition in my book than Netflix at this point). I think it's mostly inertia and the fact that it's not that much money. I suspect many others are in the same boat, and the company is really playing with fire by messing around with big % price increases and password sharing crackdowns. When inertia is your friend, you shouldn't do anything to rock the boat!

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In what way is the content awful? I had a subscription 4-5 years ago that I cancelled due to very bad client support, but the content was quite decent. All I hear from people that still have Netflix is that the content is bad, when I ask in what way most people tell it turned very political/PC. One of the most viral pictures in my area a few weeks ago was photoshopped movie poster "A Netflix original" with "Zelens'kjy" as movie name and a black guy with a M16 as the main character. Is this a thing?

>> One of the most viral pictures in my area a few weeks ago was photoshopped movie poster "A Netflix original" with "Zelens'kjy" as movie name and a black guy with a M16 as the main character.

I would not be surprised to see a netflix remake of the original movie just like that. Perhaps the main character would also have a more "diverse" sexual orientation. It's really that all the movies I've watched recently on netflix play the same note. They seem to produce movies just to tick some boxes.

I do believe that their original catalog has gotten very political and PC over the years but my largest complaint is that most of their originals now (with a few exceptions) are very formulaic and just not not written well. They're falling into that same trap milking of certain shows to their illogical conclusion while cancelling others for seemingly no reason beyond it wasn't an _instant_ hit.

With people having been stuck indoors for the past two years it's unsurprising that formulaic, poorly-written, message-driven content isn't keeping them in front of their screens.

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