[fastball]

A few? Off the top of my head:

- The Queen's Gambit

- Narcos

- House of Cards

- Russian Doll

- Ozark

- Stranger Things

- Tiger King

- Dear White People

- The Witcher

- The Umbrella Academy

- The Crown

- Space Force

And that's just TV shows. There are a lot of films they've put out that are very good as well.

[hombre_fatal]

I think it just shows you how much time people spend watching TV, so much that they have (or at least think they have) consumed all the worthy content on Netflix.

I wonder how many HNers would be happier if they replaced their excess TV consumption with something more fulfilling than working out how they can subscribe part-time to every service just so they can watch even more.

Aside, add "The Alienist" to that list. Great period piece in early New York with Dakota Fanning and Luke Evans. Has nothing to do with aliens btw.

[Invictus0]

Every time I tell people I don't watch TV, they immediately ask me what I do, as if watching TV is the only thing to do.

[nine_zeros]

I used to be the guy not watching tv everyday. And then I got married

Kidding. TV, especially good quality production, has been a great way for me to tune out of politics and the toxic environment of life in America. It's sad but for anyone just looking to get past the nightmare TV is a real boon.

[fastball]

Have you tried cutting out the news in general? Helped me a lot.

I just read Wikipedia's current events[1] section once a week or so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

[nine_zeros]

Cutting out news is hard when the administration actively pushes policies that affect me and people close to me on a weekly basis.

With the current government, I might lose loved ones to covid, deportation, violence, healthcare disaster, job loss, mental problems, drug abuse, gun shooting or just plain ol suicide.

Choose your poison cuz this otherwise this government will choose one for you.

[fastball]

Statistically not though. That's just the news making you feel that way.

The US has one of the lowest case fatality rates in the world for COVID-19[1]. As far as I'm aware, none of those other things you mention have increased dramatically under the current admin, except as they relate to COVID and lockdowns, which the entire world is unfortunately experiencing, not just the USA. It is certainly strange to pin coronavirus side-effects on the POTUS when you look at how the rest of the world is faring.

The US also remains one of the least likely countries on earth where you will lose a loved one to a healthcare disaster (even before the ACA) – quality of care in America is one of the highest in the world.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

[cambalache]

Out of those, maybe the first 2 seasons of Narcos and House of Cards are good, Stranger Things first season was OK. Tiger king is trash tv. Ozark sucked. DWP, no comments. The Witcher was heavily panned. I have not watched the rest but based on in your comment I wouldnt trust too much on your taste.

[fastball]

I generally don't respond to comments as unconstructive as this one, but I'll make an exception. I've added the overall show scores from Rotten Tomatoes (critics/audience) to maybe broaden your perspective a little.

- Narcos: 89%/94%

- House of Cards: 77%/76%

- Russian Doll: 97%/87%

- Ozark: 81%/92%

- Stranger Things: 93%/91%

- Tiger King: 86%/84%

- Dear White People: 95%/50%

- The Witcher: 67%/92%

- The Umbrella Academy: 82%/87%

- The Crown: 89%/90%

- Space Force: 38%/75%

- The Alienist: 74%/84% (added by request)

The only one not well-received by critics was Space Force (which audiences liked), and the only one even close to "OK" according to audiences was DWP (which critics liked).

Except for those two, every other show on this list had a supermajority of both critics and audience view it favorably.

[cambalache]

Are you seriously using Rotten Tomatoes? The site that gave like 100 to Cuties and LOU2? I wish you had not answered back.

Anything else less than 80% in audience score(the "critics" there are beyond redemption) is a steaming pile of crap.

[fastball]

Feel free to update the list with ratings from any aggregator you prefer.

Also, when you say LOU2, do you mean The Last of Us II? I'd like to point out that Rotten Tomatoes is a TV/film ratings website and so does not have a rating for that video game. As such, if that is what you meant by LOU2, then you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

RT is also an aggregator of reviews, so any rating on RT of a film like Cuties is not "RT's rating", but rather a score calculated from professional TV/film critics. If you think most critics are bad at doing their job then fair enough, but this entire subthread was about a claim that Netflix has terrible programming compared to "Hollywood". Not sure who you think is better equipped to judge such things besides professional critics, except of course your estimable self.

[rawoke083600]

Space-Force ! What a fantastic show !