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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's possible I just motor past bullshit I don't care about moreso than most.
But apart from that fairly reprehensible show that very obviously sexualized 9 yr olds a year or so ago, I don't recall any over pivot into 'wokeness' by Netflix.
And shows like have a hell of a lot of female empowerment 'strong woman' vibes, but hell man, it's just a show with a female lead. They also do plenty to make that person extremely unlikeable as just something of a narcissistic assbag. I don't think they paint her as some superhero by any means.
I mean just a couple weeks ago they sent out that email to employees essentially telling them to get over themselves or **** off as it relates to 'problematic' content.
Ultimately Netflix has just misfired a LOT of late. And meanwhile a lot of their subscriber losses seem to be to places like HBO and Disney that are as bad or worse when it comes to peddling this crap. You telling me HBO wouldn't have run with "Don't Look Up"? Of course they would've. The problem with that movie was that for all its star power, it was just bad. It was so on the nose that it probably should've just been a 5 minute SNL skit.
And was that fishing documentary any different than Blackfish like 5 years ago that took shots at Sea World and 'zoo culture' in general? Are there more preachy documentaries? Sure - so don't watch 'em. There's more OTHER shit on there too.
It just feels to me like Netflix lost it's monopoly on the streaming market, lost a bunch of rights deals as networks got their own streaming services off the ground, had some high profile misfires on simply bad movies (that Cumberbatch thing that critics liked that was boring as hell) and simply lost ground.
I don't see 'wokeness' as driving this. But again - maybe I just zip some of this crap or have become immune to it more than others.
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I think this is where I am.
Very infrequently will an otherwise good show, work some bullshit in there that is offputting to a middle aged middle class white dude that tries to raise his kids to evaluate people based on merit. But I have a pretty decent filter of what sucks.
But hell if you do that, you'll have to shut off a lot more than Netflix. Disney's last movie they put out, I think called Turning Red was about a girl getting her period. Not something I want my 8 year old daughter to be exposed to just yet.
Fact is there is content bombarding us, and more often than not it is slanted some way or the other.