Netfflix Original Series Thread

"Narcos" is another Netflix original series. A drama, not a documentary, of Pablo Escobar and his drug cartel.

Some of the neat parts are that it is an interesting look back at the snowstorm of cocaine sent to the USA in the 1980s. Except the look is almost entirely from what was happening in Columbia. This is not "Miami Vice."

Downsides are that it moves by really fast, each episode in the end is about a year. All the spanish people speak spanish, so you have to read subtitles. And Escobar is not shown to be nearly the violent sociopath he was.

Give it a shot if you remember the 1980s drug wars.

Quote: Pacomartin
Netflix is now big enough to create more original programming to fill the gap.



Too bad 80% of what they produce is unwatchable
crap. I watch 3 shows by Nflix, Bloodline, H of C,
and Grace and Frankie. H of C had such an awful
3rd season I might be done with it.

Shows like Between stink so bad, along with Orange,
but they get renewed. I got thru half an ep of Between.
It gets a 5.6 on IMDB with reviews like Bad Acting,
Bad Actors, Bad Script Horrible Bad Story.

Marco Polo is beautiful to look at but bad writing and
really bad acting don't cut it.

Daredevil is boring, low budget, bad writing and terrible acting.

Sense 8, after two ep's I wanted to kill myself.

Wet Hot Summer, yikes. Pure drek.

If Netflix is going to depend on producing it's
own shows, they should learn what good shows
look like and quit giving us so much crap.

"If the television networks stop selling shows, he said, the company has a game plan. “We just do more originals,” he said.

That's all well and good, but most new network
shows are cancelled in the first season. But that's
OK because they had advertisers and were paid
for. Netflix has no such luxury. They put a bunch
of money into a turkey and they have to eat the
loss. Good shows like H of C and Bloodline are
are hard to come by. Lilyhammer had a good first
season, the 2nd was so-so, and the 3rd was so bad they
cancelled the series. Drek is easy to find and
produce, as Nflix is finding out.

Nflix is insane.

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-700-original-series-2018-1202711940/

700 new projects in 2018? They are
drowning in drek, in crap, it's a
cesspool of awful movies and TV
series. For every one that's OK,
there are 12 that are just plain awful.

I don't get their point. People flock
to quality, not low class, low level
garbage. The good stuff has always
been hard to come by, even more
so today.

Quote: Evenbob

Nflix is insane.

Simple division says $8 billion / 117 million subscribers is $68.38 per subscriber. Plus the cost of acquiring all the licensed content. The goal is to have 50/50 split between licensed and original content. Either Netflix is hoping to get another 50 million subscribers or it is planning on raising the price.