[wtbob]

> So the recommendation engine just has to come up with something you'd try to watch and perhaps enjoy.

Heck, if it did that I'd be happy. I don't even know why I still have my Netflix subscription. The selection is basically as good (bad) as Hulu and Crackle, the price is higher and the recommendations are laughable (right now they're pushing: Velvet, a TV series about a Spanish fashion house; Sense 8, the latest lameness from the Wachowski brothers; Elsa & Fred, aimed at old people, a Robert Pattinson vehicle, Orange is the New Black, The Butler and piles of other stuff I would never watch if you tied me to a chair).

Frankly, I don't believe they have a recommendation engine anymore: I think they just suggest whatever is cheapest for them to play.