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This might be why Netflix didn't click with me, because I pay attention.
They actually used to have shows with decent writing, but they cancelled them all I'm pretty sure lol
Dunno, haven't had a subscription in years. I guess Ozark is the only show I should acquire to see how they finished it. Pretty much everything else that was promising, has been finished, cancelled, or... they cast an actual knowledgeable fan of the source material as the main character, and never listened to his input because the showrunners wanted a completely different show from the books and games, and then the lead actor got replaced too. Yes I'm still salty about that.
I think my main problem at the time was the lack of good movies. I don't really watch shows, and haven't since like 2014. Netflix was pretty sweet for movies in the DVD and early streaming era.
You want to watch Dark. Blink and confusion will set in immediately.
Historically, it was just a cheap-to-access digital library of high rez streamable content. If you were binging Seinfield or Friends or ER or whatever, it was already kinda thin material you'd likely already seen a dozen times anyway.
Then the "Netflix Original" material was very hit-or-miss. A lot of it was Reality TV slop and nostalgia reboots out of the gate. A lot of it was just throwing their unlimited bucket of money at the wall to see what stuck.
The material that gets the "you have to explain what is going on in every scene" treatment the hardest tends to be very low budget RomComs and celebrity-driven self-promotion content anyway. Like, you're already watching slop. Most of it is made-over native advertisements anyway. It's bad TV even before this One Neat Trick.
Yeah, I forget when I dropped them, there was some knock off looking Thor show it was pushing and seeing the picture of it in the top banner was the catalyst for me to unsub. I