What's good on Netflix?

[Walt Flanigan]

The golden age of streaming appears to be well and truly coming to an end

and ushering another golden age of piracy

 

[Smack]

love death robots is trippy as f**k!

 

[bileduct]

love death robots is trippy as f**k!

Yeah I've watched a bit of this. The animation in "The Witness" was incredible.

 

[Smack]

Yeah I've watched a bit of this. The animation in "The Witness" was incredible.

so many good ones, sonnie's edge might be my fav

I liked luck 13, good feels. The one where they traveled to that freaky f**king planet and he was banging that chick.

and the last one with the red army was great

 

[Dogs Of War]

and ushering another golden age of piracy

Geez. I really never changed. With the good shows spread amongst so many platforms, you really haven't had a choice.

Only thing we pay for is Crunchyroll for the daughter who loves anime and I find it hard to get good copies of all the random shows she likes.

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

I LOVED love death and robots.
I watched the first one and didn't really understand that each episode was it's own story. I loved the first episode so much, I was slightly dissappointed it didn't continue...but I got over that.
I actually appreciate the shorter episode times, if theres an episode you didn't like..well it's only 10-15 minutes to sit through.

Many great episodes, The Witness, Three Robots, Ice Age (i think thats what it was called) all stick out

 

[Pommy]

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.

I’m not so sure, with many of the streaming services dumping entire seasons for binge watching it’s easy to subscribe for a month then just move on to the next service.
I used to pirate but it’s a pain in the arse and whilst I know it is still easy to do it’s becoming more difficult with sites getting shut down faster.
With phones being so big a lot of people don’t even own computers anymore. Is it possible to pirate films on a phone/tablet?
I don’t miss the days of shitty pirate copy’s and finding out the audio cuts of 2/3 through etc.

 

[Timbo]

I’m not so sure, with many of the streaming services dumping entire seasons for binge watching it’s easy to subscribe for a month then just move on to the next service.
I used to pirate but it’s a pain in the arse and whilst I know it is still easy to do it’s becoming more difficult with sites getting shut down faster.
With phones being so big a lot of people don’t even own computers anymore. Is it possible to pirate films on a phone/tablet?
I don’t miss the days of shitty pirate copy’s and finding out the audio cuts of 2/3 through etc.

Whilst this is true, I wonder if it'll remain that way long term. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these services started requiring minimum sign-on periods for this exact reason.

Or, more likely, Netflix will probably be able to work out what their most popular shows are and where their audience overlap is. So for arguments sake if Stranger Things, BoJack Horseman, Black Mirror and GLOW all have common audiences (NFI if that's true but I certainly watch all four), they'll just debut them 7-8 weeks apart so that it makes it annoying to keep cancelling and signing up. Or they introduce a a small sign-up charge as a psychological barrier.

Whilst the pirate sites may be getting shut down a lot faster, it's still incredibly easy to do it if you want to.

 

[Dogs Of War]

I’m not so sure, with many of the streaming services dumping entire seasons for binge watching it’s easy to subscribe for a month then just move on to the next service.
I used to pirate but it’s a pain in the arse and whilst I know it is still easy to do it’s becoming more difficult with sites getting shut down faster.
With phones being so big a lot of people don’t even own computers anymore. Is it possible to pirate films on a phone/tablet?
I don’t miss the days of shitty pirate copy’s and finding out the audio cuts of 2/3 through etc.

You can setup things like Plex servers so you can stream your media on any device. And who downloads those crappy copies. I generally just wait the 6-8weeks for a good copy.

 

[Pommy]

You can setup things like Plex servers so you can stream your media on any device. And who downloads those crappy copies. I generally just wait the 6-8weeks for a good copy.

People who don’t want to see spoilers on social media, look I’m not saying piracy can’t happen I just don’t believe people are going to return to it in their droves.

 

[Smack]

People who don’t want to see spoilers on social media, look I’m not saying piracy can’t happen I just don’t believe people are going to return to it in their droves.

this.

if we got things the same time it wouldn't be an issue

 

[Generalzod]

I’m currently watching Stranger things 3 it is set 1984 So far it’s a great show but at the end of episode 1 a song was playing in the background “died in your arms tonight “ it’s a great song but the song was realease in 1987 lol

 

[Springs09]

I’m currently watching Stranger things 3 it is set 1984 So far it’s a great show but at the end of episode 1 a song was playing in the background “died in your arms tonight “ it’s a great song but the song was realease in 1987 lol

Oh Stranger Things is set in the 80s? I hadn't noticed.

The third season is a bunch of poorly acted unlikable caricatures going from one cliche to the next while the episodes compete with each other on how many 80s songs they can fit into 50 minutes.

The white male reporters chain-smoking and eating donuts while laughing like idiots at sexist jokes towards the one woman working there is just insulting.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Season 3 was quite a step back for Stranger Things. Way too much filler, nonsensical sub plots, questions without any real answers etc.

 

[Game_Breaker]

Stranger Things 3 - might not be as good as the first 2 seasons but still binge worthy

Spoiler: Spoiler

I’m not sure if Hopper is dead. The Russians did call one of their prisoners ‘The American’ at the end
Billy sacrificing himself is like a “save Martha” moment

 

[Timbo]

Whoa, really? Guess I’ll be the dissenter, I thought it was awesome.

Only complaint:

Spoiler

Where was Steve’s bat???

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

Half through Stranger Things 3 and I'm loving it so far.
Won't discuss specifics until I've finished it

 

[Pommy]

Stranger Things 3 - might not be as good as the first 2 seasons but still binge worthy

Spoiler: Spoiler

I’m not sure if Hopper is dead. The Russians did call one of their prisoners ‘The American’ at the end
Billy sacrificing himself is like a “save Martha” moment

 

[Game_Breaker]

Whoa, really? Guess I’ll be the dissenter, I thought it was awesome.

Only complaint:

Spoiler

Where was Steve’s bat???

Absolutely, it was awesome

I finished it in 2 days, even though it was only 8 episodes

 

[bileduct]

Meh, I've got two episodes to go and I'm bored.

Splitting the kids up was a mistake, Jim Hopper seems to have dropped 100 IQ points, Winona Ryder is still criminally underused, and the show is overly reliant on 80's nostalgia with non-stop background music and scenes that are directly lifted from Aliens, Terminator, etc.