Remember when Netflix had a million dollar competition to improve their recommendation system by something like 10%? Remember when they had user ratings and reviews? Remember when they threw it all in the fucking trash?
I don't know if these are based on what everyone on the service is watching, or if it's just because they still use Nielson families as their sole metric. How can the top 10 most popular things be shit I have never even heard of? If they're that popular, I'm pretty sure I'd hear about it somewhere.
The comments here are enlightening. In a dismaying sort of way.
It seems nothing drives a wedge between all people in a community than algorithms like the Netflix Top Ten. Everybody eyeing everyone else with suspicion, when actually no one is actually watching that crap.
I wanna take a minute to plug criterion channel. Objectively the value is worse than Netflix. But they have an amazing collection of films nonetheless. I put their 24/7 channel on and just watch whatever is on. Never in a million years thought I would be into classic French cinema.
On a side rant fuck the French and their films! They drop you right into a situation with no clear good or bad guys. The films have meandering plots that go nowhere because why would they!?!? At the end there's no resolution, just an empty chasam in your soul you've somehow overlooked your entire existence. And the worst part is they just put "fin" up on the screen and that's that. Fuckin foreign nonsense
There's all sorts of treasures, may be worth a peek.
When it doesn’t occur to you that the list is made up entirely by Netflix to get that engagement, really making it the “Top Ten Things Netflix Wants You To Watch Right Now, Please” list.