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Apparently this one is a real loser that may be so-bad-it's-good (or watchable, at least):

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/09/the-i-land-netflix-spoilers-ending-explained.html (https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/09/the-i-land-netflix-spoilers-ending-explained.html)

It's a ripoff of "Lost" from the guy who brought us the disastrous WICKER MAN remake.

From the review: "In many ways, it’s like that meme of 'I made a computer watch these things and this is what it thinks a script is'... the show goes from entertainingly bad to tragically boring to hilariously insane."

NF originals have generally been of pretty high quality, but when you crank out this much product, you're likely to have some losers in there.

I think Conan had it right, Netflix's motto these days should be: quantity.

I haven't watched the show you're talking about, Rev, but in general it's like someone at Netflix has said, "We need to bury our competitors with sheer volume."

So Netflix takes its overflowing war chest and funds a lot of projects and then scatters a mass of programming on the streamosphere and hopes some of it sticks and isn't garbage. (Bandersnatch was imaginative, but the service's bad to good ratio has flipped in the wrong direction.)

I think Netflix's quality has gone way down the last several years, and its militant preachiness factor (MPF) has gone through the roof. We almost didn't renew this month but I wanted to finish one of the few watchable new series I'd found on there, so I think this might be our last month with Netflix for a while.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Ironically I've not watched most of their 'original' shows.  I mean, I'm not sure which ones qualify as 'theirs'.  I watched Stranger Things, which I loved.  The Marvel-verse shows: Daredevil, Punisher, etc.  But do the Marvel shows count as Netflix productions?

I've only used it for other programming.  Namely tv shows I have heard were fine but for whatever reason haven't gotten to see on regular cable. 

I briefly watched only one show, MINDHUNTER. I thought that the exploration of the serial killers mind would be an awesome concept, nearly impossible to f**k up. It practically tells itself! It's a fascinating piece to investigate, the intrincate and dark places the human mind can go...
So I watched the show. 30 minutes in and the only thing that happened was some guy going into clubs and hooking up with some crazy ass boring girl. And having sex, of course, you can't do anything today without people having sex. I think the guy was a detective but at no point he ever did anything related to that job. Stopped watching and destroyed my TV afterwards.

To me, Netflix will always be Nets**t, and it's nothing but a scourge in our world. Alongside Amazon and all similar platforms, they exist to destroy not only our minds, but also beloved franchices and ideas.

WATCH THESE-
hemlock grove
the umbrella academy
stranger things
hell house
we have always lived in the castle


just a few examples of GOOD stuff on netflix originals...i may have one wrong as an original, lol!

I watched it, but I found it disapointing.  It was built up like it was some great 80s throwback and it just felt like a modern series set in the 80s rather than anything genuine 80s.

that's a shame, midget, i really enjoy stranger things, it reminds me of stuff like " eerie indiana" . i love the original of that, the remake was drek.
  a big fave i forgot to mention is santa clarita diet, i'm heartbroken that netflix canceled it, as i was when they cancelled hemlock grove. some of the foreign ones like penny dreadful, dark, even marianne are quite good, but in this age of no attention span needed, they're not as popular as they should be.

Recently took a crack at their Dark Crystal prequel and am so far two episodes in (I don't do binge watching). The set design is beautiful. The puppetry meets the high standards we've come to expect from the Jim Henson Creature Shop. The jury's still out on the actual story, though. The big issue is the character of Brea. The writing team was presumably going for the Spunky Princess archetype, but she comes across an entitled brat who has been serving as the show's Wesley. Hopefully she'll improve, but I'm feeling pessimistic on that front.

Probably not, and one can add "Iron Fist," "Jessica Jones," and "Luke Cage" to that list. Apparently, they were created for Netflix by Marvel. Netflix then later canceling--apparently--all the series created by Marvel. As to the why and wherefore they were canceled, the reasons vary, but my guess would be, as Marvel was now a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, which had its own streaming service, Disney+, on the way, Netflix did not want the competition.