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Yes and no, a lot of people say it has no contents because some stuff was pulled, but they still have a sh*load of content compared to what you got before, but people have already binged on all of it, so there's nothing new to look forward to most of the time.



Netflix also makes it super hard to find content and according to a recent Hollywood Reporter article the forces within Netflix that pushed for more middling, cheaper content over high quality content won. I think it shows. Really high quality content is imo more likely to appeal even to people who usually prefer a different genre. Netflix used to have that on the form of shows like House of Cards and even recently had the Queens Gambit which was apparently made by the person within Netflix who lost.


Queens Gambit was a miniseries adapted from a book. You need a LOT of those to compete with full multi-season series.


Luckily there are a lot of books.


There are currently less than four thousand movies on netflix, and about 1.5 thousand of those are "netflix originals".

Maybe that sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. If you're browsing through random movies on IMDB and come across something interesting, the chance that Netflix will have it is vanishingly small.




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