And yet still no "Watch Together" option. It is frankly inconceivable to me that Netflix has no interest in making their platform just a bit more social.
I guess we all have to settle more more tricks to get us to watch whatever bad-to-middle reality show they've launched this week. Less glibly, I would actually be interested in this feature if I didn't feel like Netflix's recommendations to me are so bad for me. I've felt this way since the rating scale change, but I can't honestly say that was the cause. It's more likely a result of increased Netflix-produced content, which by-and-large I find uncompelling (with documentaries being an exception).
Honestly the ratings used to be brilliantly accurate. They've been making them less accurate ever since, to the point where I think there's next to no content-awareness going on and it's just purely fueled by marketing initiatives.
Rather than picking anything at random, I’d prefer to be able to have it randomly pick an episode of a particular show.
Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is.
My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.
1) Genre channels. Each channel is a stream of trailers with information about the film too, so you can quickly figure out if you like or don’t like it, without having to scroll around
2) Consider adding a reviews channel for each genre too, talk me through some of these shows
Pluto TV has a more "channel surfing" interface - with horror, scifi, comedy channels, along with some more specific ones like MST3k, Star Trek, and Classic Who. It's great for more "ambient / watch anything" TV.
Some movies also have a "watch from the beginning" feature if they have the same movie or show on-demand.
I guess we all have to settle more more tricks to get us to watch whatever bad-to-middle reality show they've launched this week. Less glibly, I would actually be interested in this feature if I didn't feel like Netflix's recommendations to me are so bad for me. I've felt this way since the rating scale change, but I can't honestly say that was the cause. It's more likely a result of increased Netflix-produced content, which by-and-large I find uncompelling (with documentaries being an exception).