• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    that's a bold move for a company that has very little anyone wants to watch on it anymore

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Marketing and revenue have zero idea how to handle the concept that Netflix WAS super popular, and now a bunch of people just sort of are used to it as a recurring fee and don't think about it at this point. I'd bet a bunch of them somehow think they must be doing something correctly, and aren't considering this at all.

      If they keep pushing they'll lose more and more of this apathy-based subscription that's keeping them afloat lol.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, at this point, the worst thing I can imagine Netflix doing is reminding people that they're paying for it. That's a problem that will keep getting worse too, as younger more tech savvy people are unwilling to enter their system at all in favor of more quasi-legal ways to access media. I don't know all that many young people that pay for their own Netflix, and if mine were to get cut off, I wouldn't go get my own sub, I'd forget it existed in the first place.

    • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      The biggest thing I like about netflix is getting exposed to a ton of stuff from around the world. South Korea (how do we not have a burning flag emoji for them) has tons of cool shows, germany has bunches of stuff I would have never heard of. I've gotten to see stuff from Brazil and Bolivia and a bunch of other countries. Most of the stuff is netflix original so I really appreciate being exposed to all of those shows and movies. But yeah other then international (non english) programing netflix doesn't have a lot going for it.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        3 years ago

        What are your favorite German shows? I liked Dark but that's the only one I've really been hooked on.

        • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I second Babylon Berlin, I have a huge crush on liv Lisa fries because of it

          Also Inheritance is Austrian and really good, kind of like a euro take on Succession

        • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Tribes of Europa was good, kinda standard post apocalyptic show but cool to see how other countries imagine it. And the bad guy is basically an Amazon AI. I watched the first few episodes of Barbarians and it seem really cool, an actual German take on the history of the early Germanic tribes interactions with the Romans. There were a few German movies I liked but I can't find the titles now. If you're looking for some other stuff To the Lake is a Russian post apocalyptic show. Ghoul is an Indian horror mini-series that I remember really liking. 3% is a Brazilian dystopian series, the first two season are really good, the third season feels like it was just tacked on and not really worth watching.

          • Wertheimer [any]
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            3 years ago

            Thanks (and thank you to the other responses, as well). I'll check those out.