Good thing they’re raising prices again!
They ruined my favorite show on Netflix by taking out Henry Cavil. So when they stopped account sharing I decided to not get an account and just stick with Hulu.
Might get rid of all the TV’s out of the house anyway. Screw em all.
They didn’t take him out, he quit because the writers were butchering the story
That is a grey area for me, mostly because of the statements made by the showrunners after his departure. When someone leaves a project they love dearly and promoted heavily and personally drove from the fan side of things, it makes me wonder whether it was an actual leaving or if they paid him handsomely to say he’s leaving and to not badmouth the show in XYZ words or format.
That is possible, but that’s also the type of person that would be most likely to leave a project because of creative differences.
Plus saying the writers were butchering the story isn’t exactly a way for him to exit without making the show look bad. For hardcore fans, that’s a sign that it might be better to just skip it or wait for reviews or pirate it specifically to avoid giving the makers money.
It’s the second time Henry Cavil has been perfectly cast for what was supposed to be a long running role and he didn’t stick around. You’ve got to wonder if these people just don’t understand what they have. And with Superman they literally just didn’t offer the role again when they decided to reboot the movies (yet again).
I grew up with Christopher Reeves as Superman and I still think Cavill is the best Superman to ever be cast
Lol I cancelled Netflix and returned to the high seas a little while ago. Turns out I don’t even want to pirate Netflix shows either.
Because you get to dictate how you watch the content; You don’t have to deal with enshitified or just straight garbage apps from the streaming source; and finally, you can keep it for posterity indefinitely if the mood strikes you.
I maintain my own media server and it’s such an infinitely better experience than anything currently out there.
This is the thing I’ll never understand about the modern streaming industry’s focus on watchtime and second-screen content.
Like, guys, spending your budget on a thing I am actively NOT engaged with as a consumer is not going to help your brand. Y’all got big on prestige TV, and the kind of shows where I go “Oh this looks really good, gonna make sure it’s on my watchlist”. That way I’m never gonna unsub as long as I have a watchlist, the actual hours spent on platform doesn’t matter.
It’s becoming a graveyard of cancelled shows. When they killed GLOW, that was it for me.
Also the sound design is really bad. Everything is really ‘dry’ with no room reverb, sort of like how talking on telephones used to sound
The cancellations are probably their biggest problem, and it’s not even one that’s difficult to fix. Instead of green lighting random shows that are meant to go for an undetermined number of seasons and cancelling them when they underperform early on, do what kids cartoon networks have done for decades and green light select shows for a three season run. The showrunners know they have three seasons to resolve their plot, and viewers gain confidence that their shows will actually end and will start watching their new stuff again.
If you don’t like the price hikes CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.
Stop with all the belly aching. They cancel all the good shows early anyway. I killed my sub years ago and it’s been a great choice.
The increase in cancellations was the nail in the coffin for me. But my satisfaction started to decline when they ditched the star rating system. I don’t care how many people want to claim it didn’t work a specific way or wasn’t tailored to you, etc etc. it produced many good recommendation for me with insane accuracy across the whole 5* spectrum. The binary system was, and I assume still is, shit.
I don’t mind price hikes, because the money spent is still worth it to me (I have like 5 streaming subscriptions), but Netflix is among the worst for just usability.
It’s often more difficult to find content on Netflix than it is to just search on my TV and click to the content from there.
Raising prices is fine if your product is competitive enough, but I’ve considered canceling Netflix just because it kinda sucks to use. Somewhere along the line, they stopped focusing on UX.
Lots of companies lately just foot to the floor with enshitification
