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Comment by siproprio | Hacker News Reader

Yep, most Netflix shows are pretty bad, the movies even worse, and the catalog outside the US is 10x smaller.

Absolutely not worth paying for it unless sharing with a couple of friends IMHO.

Someone on reddit said 'Netflix is like browsing the $2 DVD bin at Walmart except your pay them $15 a month for it' and I felt it was very apt.

Netflix has _always_ been the $2 DVD bin

Back in the mail subscription day at least they had the $2 obscure DVD that you couldn't find anywhere else. Now it's just the same show with different casts in different settings.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. They used to mail me the criterion collection when I was in high school. Obviously it's not that now.

Is it that expensive in the US? It’s 7.99€/month in Europe. For 1 month of series binging that’s not too bad, just be sure to cancel the subscription directly. We re-enable it maybe once or twice per year.

At some point they abandoned trying to make a single good show or movie (or having a library of classics) in favor of churning out five mediocre ones.

Why watch a bad show? The best media is available whenever you'd like (but it's not on Netflix anymore).

The thing is its not obviously a money thing: Netflix throws piles of cash at their productions, it's just the scripts that greenlight are garbage.

Their Cowboy Bebop remake was awful and missed the point of everything, but seemed like they could’ve fixed it, so of course they instantly canceled it instead.

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