Everybody knows that Netflix has become a synonym for bullshit content for the last few years - specially when compared to what's available on HBO Max and Disney+.
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Everybody knows that Netflix has become a synonym for bullshit content for the last few years - specially when compared to what's available on HBO Max and Disney+. Not that I intend to subscribe to those services...
"[H]igh output alone canât account for Netflixâs garbage quality. In the 1920s and â30s, studios like Paramount and Warner Bros. put out as many as seventy movies per year. Around its peak in the â90s, Miramax tried releasing a new film almost every week. The difference between Netflix and its predecessors is that the older studios had a business model that rewarded cinematic expertise and craft. Netflix, on the other hand, is staffed by unsophisticated executives who have no plan for their movies and view them with contempt. Cindy Holland, the first employee Sarandos hired, who eventually served as vice president of original content, once compared Netflixâs rapacious DVD acquisition strategy to âshoveling coal in the side door of the house.â This remained true as Netflix ramped up its original-film production. In researching this essay, I was told by sources about two high-level Netflix executives who have been known to green-light projects without reading the scripts at all.
Such slipshod filmmaking works for the streaming model, since audiences at home are often barely paying attention. Several screenwriters whoâve worked for the streamer told me a common note from company executives is âhave this character announce what theyâre doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.â"
