this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
56 points (96.7% liked)

Movies and TV Shows

2036 readers
90 users here now

A community for entertainment industry news and general discussion about movies and TV shows.

Rules:

  1. Be civil.
  2. Please do not link to pirated content.
  3. No spoilers in the title of submissions. And please use spoiler MarkDown in the body of discussions. This is a courtesy to other users.
  4. Comments solely criticizing headlines and/or journalism will be removed for being off-topic.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Motherfucker, that's what all streaming services are. The massive amounts of just absolute garbage that most of them are putting out is ridiculous. Just because a show here or there that catches your attention gets popular doesn't mean suddenly they're the epitome of highbrow entertainment.

Netflix has to churn out more and more original content (with the obvious result being a lot of it being mediocre) cause everyone and their mother decided they wanted their own streaming service, so they clawed their streaming rights away from Netflix.

That doesn't mean Netflix is a good guy, by any means, but they're hardly alone at the bottom of the barrel.

[–] snekerpimp -1 points 11 months ago

Jesse… just used a recognizable brand name… next time I guess I’ll just put (insert faceless corporation here), didn’t mean to cause a conniption