Ugh... I guess with ALL the new streaming services, Netflix can't pick up (m)any new ones? I really don't know, but that's what it looks like. Like by now there are like 10 streaming services and you can't just pay for all of them. And people are really still wondering why SOME people stream illegally? I for my part couldn't afford everything I'd like to see... but then again: I usually buy the DVDs once they come out if I really love a show, so there's that...
I get it more for America as they have so many exclusive streaming services starting up that they no longer want to share their content, but for example we don’t have a CW exclusive streaming service here in the U.K., so Netflix is the only way that a lot of intentional fans even get to see some of those shows. I don’t know if it’s Netflix or the networks that no longer want to sign on the newer shows, but it’s frustrating when you’ve just gotten used to easier access for many US shows, and now it seems like I might have to go back to illegally streaming them as there’s just no other legal way of watching a show like Roswell New Mexico for example. It’s not on streaming, it’s not available to buy on iTunes, so it feels like we’re actually going backwards when it comes to accessibility
I think Legacies, though a couple season in, and Roswell might be too recent for netflix to pick them up?! I don,t know. With all the new streaming services, it's hard to tell what's gonna happen and so that could explain, in parts, netflix's amount of original series and movies nowadays. I wish I could see legacies and at least the pilot of Roswell.
I was expecting them to pick up Roswell in May when I heard that it would be on US Netflix on that date after the season had finished airing, but there’s been no news so far, that’s what first made me think that their CW deal is coming to an end here in the U.K. as I suspect that if it hasn’t been added by now then it won’t be :( I also want to see the new Nancy Drew show that’s coming to the CW, but I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath that Netflix are going to add it
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I totally get it. And I saw that movies are being removed off of netflix because of the new Disney streaming service that is either coming or already started. I like certain original projects but this isn't all that I want to see either, obviously.
They’re likely going to lose a lot of the new BBC shows too as they’re supposed to be setting up this new ‘britbox’ streaming service this year as well...
Netflix are obviously focusing more on original content as a way of surviving, but meh I wonder how far it will take them. They can’t produce that many new shows every single month that people are going to keep regularly subscribing for, especially when they dump six-ten episodes at a time and then that’s usually it for a year or more, that can’t really compete with the regular networks releasing new episodes all year round to keep people talking on a weekly basis. Whereas you can easily finish the new series of Black Mirror in a day tbh, it’s only three episodes 🤷♀️
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Hopefully not a sign of things to come, but I suspect that it is :(Considering that everything is getting their own streaming service now it's unfortunately going to be a thing now that Netflix will no longer be hosting newer shows, or at least it'll be an incredibly smaller selection than in the past. I did read something a while back that Netflix just wants to host their own original content altogether and not have anything else of any other property. This is sadly a result of what this ridiculous streaming wars nonsense has done. It's just fucking everyone over, at this point. What made Netflix stand out initially was that it was a good place to host a variety of things and it was a good way of viewing so many things, but now with other streaming services being put out and wanting "their" property on there only, it's going to get even more restrictive. But overall, it's just stupid because there's so many services now that nobody is going to want to pay for multiple different ones just to view one or two shows that are shown
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I do wonder about Netflix’s future in say 20 years time, you always hear that they’re the one streaming service that’s going to be fine, and I believe that’s the case for right now, but I wonder how long they can keep churning out content like this and spending millions of dollars on these shows? Disney, Amazon, and Apple are in a different position with their future streaming content as they have other business to prop it up, but you always hear about Netflix having to borrow so much money and being heavily in debt, so I wonder how long before the money people start to feel like it’s just not a sustainable business model? They can’t keep on spending more and more on new content every month without limit, but that’s kind of what they’re going to have to do if they foresee a day when they only consist of original content. In that case they need to have at least four shows coming out every month, and I don’t even know if that’s going to be enough to keep subscribers year round as those shows aren’t going to appeal to everyone, most
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I heard a lot of Black Mirror fans have been disappointed. I agree with episode 1. I was so EXCITED for new episodes and then they start it off with such a lame story? It was indeed slow and the only interesting part was the ending. Even though it was kind of pointless, why they didn't just leave their old lives behind and be happy
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It’s strange because you’d think that at least one of the episodes would be really amazing when the season is half its usual length, but there really weren’t any episodes even as close to as great as USS Callister from series 4. The first episode definitely felt like ‘that’s it??’ to me after I first watched it lol, especially when it was over an hour long when they could have easily told the same story in 40 minutes
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And also the fact that they were never two men in the game...might have something to say, with why they maybe wouldn't have worked in real life?. Wasn't one of them a woman in the game anyways? I feel like they definitely got their sexuality tested and got them confused. It might have been different if they actually played men, both of them..in the game. Yep, Danny played the man, Karl was the women. I was actually expecting Danny to experiment with being the woman after he asked Karl what it was like, and he seemed really curious, but then they did nothing else with that. It really did feel like the episode just introduced the idea of two hetro (?) friends having virtual sex and trying to figure out if they were also attracted in real life, and then..... that was the entire plot. I can’t believe that they needed 1 hour and 1 minute to tell that story, whereas White Christmas managed to pack in sooo much more with just an extra ten minutes running time
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I personally didn't care for the first 2 episodes much at all. I haven't seen the last one yet. Still trying to find time.
I agree there isn't much out there on Netflix to watch. I also have HULU and there isn't much out there either. I am thinking about digging into Supernatural. That should take me like a year to get thru all those seasons.
Yeah I didn’t either, I felt like the first episode didn’t have much of a plot, and then the second kind of fizzled out after all that buildup. It just seemed like a pretty lame conclusion that all of that was because he got distracted by a notification on his phone while he was driving. I get that the accident was devastating, but going to all that trouble just to speak to the CEO and tell him that he made his app too addictive just didn’t seem very plausible, especially as he acknowledged himself that the accident was still his fault
The third episode is probably the only one of the three that feels like it has a developing story actually and things happening
And after watching the 3rd episode, this is the one I liked most. I can really relate to it much better than the other to. And I thought Miley Cyrus did this episode very well. I thought it could use a better ending as you said though.
I did think it was the episode with the most interesting ideas, it was more the execution that was kind of weird for me towards the end as it just didn’t feel like BM when it turned into a cheesy rescue mission with the two sisters. I agree that Miley did a good job with the part, but imo it would have had more of an impact if it had had the usual dark twist to end it on
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Netflix are obviously focusing more on original content as a way of surviving, but meh I wonder how far it will take them. They can’t produce that many new shows every single month that people are going to keep regularly subscribing for, especially when they dump six-ten episodes at a time and then that’s usually it for a year or more, that can’t really compete with the regular networks releasing new episodes all year round to keep people talking on a weekly basis. Whereas you can easily finish the new series of Black Mirror in a day tbh, it’s only three episodes 🤷♀️ ( ... )
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I agree there isn't much out there on Netflix to watch. I also have HULU and there isn't much out there either. I am thinking about digging into Supernatural. That should take me like a year to get thru all those seasons.
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The third episode is probably the only one of the three that feels like it has a developing story actually and things happening
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