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What's good on Netflix?

Vic Mackey

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Anyone watching Slasher simply blood curdling lol

only seen 2 episodes but its better then i thought. was expecting plenty of tired cliches but enjoyed it so far. dont like the total lack of sex and boobs, please tell me we get some?
 

Mr Spock!

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I Am Mother- I enjoy these films where characters are stuck in an isolated sterile environment (like Moon) Smart little low budget sci-fi this with a few surprises. 4/5
Yeah that was a good movie.

Really interesting ending and shows the robots and humans as bad as each other.
 

Game_Breaker

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No mention of Peaky Blinders?
Awesome show
Also Jack Taylor, which stars Iain Glen (Ser Jorah) as a drunk Irish detective, ex cop. Pretty good too.

I like peaky blinders, I'm on season 3 so far - I do get lost with the plot sometimes though

I also expected more from Tom Hardy, he plays the same character with the same mannerisms.
 

skeepe

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I really enjoyed Polar. Sure the story wasn’t exactly original, but Mads Mikkelsen was great as he always is, and that Sindy sure had a great set of talents.
 

Timbo

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It’s been announced out of the US that NBC is going to launch its own streaming service next year, with rights to The Office reverting to it and Friends soon after.

Those are comfortably the two most watched shows on US Netflix. They are likely about to have a huge downturn in subscriber numbers.

The golden age of streaming appears to be well and truly coming to an end, there will be well over a dozen services in the US shortly.
 

Game_Breaker

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It’s been announced out of the US that NBC is going to launch its own streaming service next year, with rights to The Office reverting to it and Friends soon after.

Those are comfortably the two most watched shows on US Netflix. They are likely about to have a huge downturn in subscriber numbers.

The golden age of streaming appears to be well and truly coming to an end, there will be well over a dozen services in the US shortly.

Golden Age of streaming or golden age of netflix coming to an end?
 

Timbo

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Golden Age of streaming or golden age of netflix coming to an end?

Golden age of streaming.

Streaming got its foothold in the US because Netflix and Hulu has 95% of what people wanted to watch, with a handful of shows remaining on HBO and, eventually, Amazon.

People don’t mind paying $30 a month for two services and therefore pirating seriously decreased.

But now? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Crackle, HBO Now, CBS All Access, Disney+, YouTube TV, Sling, FuboTV, The Roku Channel, NBC Direct, etc, etc, etc all have paid subscription services. It’s gone from being the cheap alternative to cable tv to being more expensive if you want all of them - which you do, because almost all of those services only have one or two shows that people actually watch, and the rest is just filler. It’s Foxtel in the 90s all over again.

People are happy to pay for one or two services, but not all of them. Which means people go back to piracy, and if you decide to pirate shows, you probably won’t pay for any of the services because you’ll just pirate what you want to watch.

This means they will become increasingly risk-averse to hang on to the customers that they have and will take fewer risks on interesting original programming.
 

Shaun Hewitt

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Been watching GLOW recently, it's alright. Pretty funny.

Also as my trash show (you know, you sit down and do nothin, mind does nothing) is Flinch. It's not good.

IT is now on Netflix

and I'm looking for Stranger Things Series 3
 

axl rose

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Been watching GLOW recently, it's alright. Pretty funny.

Also as my trash show (you know, you sit down and do nothin, mind does nothing) is Flinch. It's not good.

Speaking of mindless shows I've been watching the first season of Danish show The Rain. The characters might be dumber than those in The Walking Dead, no mean feat. But as mindless fun after work its fine.
 
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PJ

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Golden age of streaming.

Streaming got its foothold in the US because Netflix and Hulu has 95% of what people wanted to watch, with a handful of shows remaining on HBO and, eventually, Amazon.

People don’t mind paying $30 a month for two services and therefore pirating seriously decreased.

But now? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Crackle, HBO Now, CBS All Access, Disney+, YouTube TV, Sling, FuboTV, The Roku Channel, NBC Direct, etc, etc, etc all have paid subscription services. It’s gone from being the cheap alternative to cable tv to being more expensive if you want all of them - which you do, because almost all of those services only have one or two shows that people actually watch, and the rest is just filler. It’s Foxtel in the 90s all over again.

People are happy to pay for one or two services, but not all of them. Which means people go back to piracy, and if you decide to pirate shows, you probably won’t pay for any of the services because you’ll just pirate what you want to watch.

This means they will become increasingly risk-averse to hang on to the customers that they have and will take fewer risks on interesting original programming.


Yeah, or people will just cycle in and out of different services. Have Netflix and Hulu for a couple of months and binge/ Switch to Disney and whatever.

Or group up and share accounts so someone pays for Netflix, a mate for Hulu and swap logins.
 

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