[ljm]

And a lot of 'Netflix originals' over in the EU are essentially localised variations of a theme.

The theme is usually the end of the world, zombies, or the dead coming back to life. Or some horrible phenomena at the edge of a forest, and the once peaceful town is under attack from the supernatural.

What makes it worse is that Netflix now dubs foreign content by default to make it all look English. And they do their best to trick you.

[dreamcompiler]

You can still watch it in the original language with subtitles. It's just a setting.

But yeah, why is everything about "horror forests" nowadays? It's been done to death.

Maybe because so many people nowadays have never seen a tree?

[jrnichols]

what's frustrated me about Netflix originals is the same thing that drove me away from a lot of traditional TV - some awesome shows being cancelled after 2-3 seasons. I had hoped that Netflix would at least give their own shows a good story arc, but nope. they're doing the same thing Fox/CBS/NBC do.

i still much prefer shows without commercials, though.

[dreamcompiler]

Somebody wrote about this during the last week (can't remember where): Netflix purposely only produces two seasons of shows, because that's the right amount to convert new subscribers without alienating old ones enough to quit.

[yissp]

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-of-hollywo...