Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)

Almost finished season 2
Really good reality series
Surprised how young the drivers are
Most in very early 20's
A little shocked how competitive they are as they will block a team mate from passing sometimes wrecking both cars.
2 favorite teams to follow are Red Bull and Haas. Renault is also fun to watch. These are struggling teams as F1 dominated by Mercedes and Ferrari
One really funny shot where one driver says "fuck netflix" and the driver laughs as he says they will never show it.
They showed it.
Only 10 teams with 2 cars each so only 20 coveted driving spots.
Great series

Trust No one : The hunt for the Crypto King

This is really good
Sucks how much money was lost

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Trust No one : The hunt for the Crypto King

This is really good
Sucks how much money was lost

That sounds like one that I might actually watch. Thank you

The new series on HBO about Julia Child. Saw the first three episodes. They've done a masterful job of recreating the early 1960s, showing department stores and grocery stores and how people lived. The story is okay, but they're really dragging out how hard it was for women in the business world in those days. Her husband opposes her at first, her father opposes her, all the men at the PBS station oppose her vehemently. Saving grace was the guy who ran the PBS station gave her a chance because his wife liked her. Even then she had to produce the entire show with her own money. She was in on the very start of women's lib in the 1960s and by the time I was 20 years old in 1969 women's lib was on full display.

Senzo: Murder of a soccer star
Fascinating true story
South Africa
I never heard of this case
It was huge there
Just finished episode 1, hooked
A small party at his girlfriends mother's home
2 men enter. Senzo killed. A nation shocked.
A robbery gone wrong or something more sinister
Let's see where the investigation goes

Netflix stock is getting crushed today, down over 30%. They might now be seen as just another streaming service. I killed it a couple years ago, too much too unwatchable. Fewer and fewer movies I liked. It seems their subscriber growth in the USA is pretty much over. International looking a bigger slog than they projected.

The lesson is be careful paying crazy P/E multiples. The stock will probably keep drifting lower. Will it go low enough to be takeover bait we have to see.

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Netflix stock is getting crushed today, down over 30%. .

Apparently Netflix has been hemorrhaging subscribers in the last 6 months. They were bloated with new subscribers during the pandemic and people watched pretty much all the content they had to offer and got burnt out on it. Also there is a glut of streaming services now. Paramount, Discovery Plus, Disney, HBOmax, YouTube has a streaming service, Apple TV Plus, Hulu, peacock, Amazon Prime, to name just a few. Good original content is extremely hard to come up with so what content that is good is spread very very thin over all these streaming services. I'm happy because on HBOmax I just found the movie Giant from 1956 starring Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. I've been looking for it for years online. 3 plus hours of wonderfulness.

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Apparently Netflix has been hemorrhaging subscribers in the last 6 months.

Netflix still has 221.64 million subscribers globally even after losing 200,000 subscribers the first part of the year.
Netflix estimates 100 million households are sharing passwords and suggests a global crackdown is coming

Netflix has obviously always known about sharing passwords, but they didn't want to hinder growth. Sharing passwords are indirectly controlled because only two devices can be watching at any one time (or up to 4 devices for a family plan).

Now that the limits of growth are being reached, if they can convert 25% to 50% of the password sharers into accounts they would have a big jump in subscribers.

Tokyo Vice on HBO. What a terrific program, I'm finding a whole bunch of good shows on HBO. Tokyo Vice is almost too good, the acting the writing, filmed in Japan. There are a lot of really good Japanese actors out there. This has the venerable Ken Watanabe playing the lead detective. You might not know his name but you know his face because he's been around for a long time. It's well worth the $7 a month that you can get HBO for right now just to watch this show. But there's a ton of other ones, like Julia, like The Flight Attendant, and so many others. And HBO has a great lineup of old movies too. HBO's the original I remember living in California in the 70s and we were all stealing HBO. And it's still around producing great stuff.

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Apparently Netflix has been hemorrhaging subscribers in the last 6 months. They were bloated with new subscribers during the pandemic and people watched pretty much all the content they had to offer and got burnt out on it. Also there is a glut of streaming services now. Paramount, Discovery Plus, Disney, HBOmax, YouTube has a streaming service, Apple TV Plus, Hulu, peacock, Amazon Prime, to name just a few. Good original content is extremely hard to come up with so what content that is good is spread very very thin over all these streaming services. I'm happy because on HBOmax I just found the movie Giant from 1956 starring Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. I've been looking for it for years online. 3 plus hours of wonderfulness.

Was watching some Netflix series while at my mother's in recovery. Half the plot was gay storylines. I have to figure most of their series follow woke guidelines. I'm not paying for that and over time lots of people won't.

Even without that it is hard to make good content. What percent of network shows are good enough to syndicate? What part even make a second season?

Netflix seems destined to be a first-mover that becomes just another service. The hyper-growth for the stock is over. FANG is no more.