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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Apr 9, 2022 8:00:33 GMT
Price hike to £15.99 a month incoming
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Post by Chopsen on Apr 9, 2022 8:05:24 GMT
That's a terrible recommendation
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 9, 2022 8:29:24 GMT
That’s now the kind of price where it’s not a permanent sub and people start storing things up to binge. I’m absolutely not getting 16 quids worth of content from Netflix a month, especially now they have lost Star Trek.
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Post by askew on Apr 9, 2022 8:31:28 GMT
Yup. Bye bye.
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Post by sport✅ on Apr 9, 2022 8:34:10 GMT
Thanks a lot Putin!
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Post by Lukus on Apr 9, 2022 8:36:09 GMT
Yep, same.
I watched Archive 81 on your recommendation,Nick. I enjoyed it a lot for the most part. The last two or three episodes don't manage to keep up the levels of intrigue and atmosphere as the preceding ones, and it goes a bit Stranger Things (not that I don't like Stranger Things, but Archive didn't end in a very original way, I mean).
It's got a really good creepy and sinister tone without ever being scary and I liked how it kept everything in the dark, only revealing things to the audience as the protagonist pieces it together.
Aaaand it's been cancelled. The show I mean. Not my account.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 9, 2022 8:38:29 GMT
My kids watch it pretty much all day every day. They just have shows on rotation. Might struggle to cancel.  |
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Post by sport✅ on Apr 9, 2022 8:40:33 GMT
Think it's time to start downloading cars again.
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Post by LFace on Apr 9, 2022 8:44:13 GMT
Just cancelled mine. I've been on the 4K plan for a while but don't watch anything. What I do watch, they end up cancelling on a cliffhanger so fuck em.
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Post by jono62 on Apr 9, 2022 9:16:01 GMT
Think it's time to start downloading cars again. You wouldn't download a car. |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Apr 9, 2022 9:23:20 GMT
There is a new Japanese show where they ask toddlers to do daily tasks like go down the shops or some other responsible chore.
Everything you need to know is written above.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Apr 9, 2022 10:22:43 GMT
Yeah, think they can do one at 16 quid a month. Don’t get that much from it.
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 9, 2022 11:01:05 GMT
There is a new Japanese show where they ask toddlers to do daily tasks like go down the shops or some other responsible chore. Everything you need to know is written above. I remember seeing in Osaka, tiny wee kids, 5 years old I suppose, with their rucksacks getting the metro on their own. Same in Tokyo, the opposite of the "school run" West. |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Apr 9, 2022 11:30:30 GMT
There is a new Japanese show where they ask toddlers to do daily tasks like go down the shops or some other responsible chore. Everything you need to know is written above. I remember seeing in Osaka, tiny wee kids, 5 years old I suppose, with their rucksacks getting the metro on their own. Same in Tokyo, the opposite of the "school run" West. The first show they kitted a 2 yo out with his flag, backpack and purse and sent him on a 1km round trip to the shops. Poor little bugger by the end. It's still quite entertaining which is a worry. |
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Post by Lukus on Apr 9, 2022 12:37:56 GMT
I'd watch a show like this, based on various 'how many kids could you take on' type scenarios - youtu.be/BO69r4ugSDQ |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Apr 9, 2022 12:47:12 GMT
lol, I'd watch the shit out of that.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 9, 2022 13:03:19 GMT
I remember seeing in Osaka, tiny wee kids, 5 years old I suppose, with their rucksacks getting the metro on their own. Same in Tokyo, the opposite of the "school run" West. Yeah, this is a long time favorite on Japanese TV. I forget the name, but I think it translates as 'First Mission'. They have dozens of staff and cameramen within about 20m of them, and yet somehow the kids never seem to notice  The one where the kid dragged a plastic bag with oranges back up the hill towards home, only for a hole to get ripped in the bottom of the bag and the oranges to one by one fall out and roll down the hill behind them was sooo sad/sweet. Actually, it might be the only Japanese show I like. Something for the positive thread! |
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Post by simple on Apr 9, 2022 13:10:05 GMT
I watched the trailer and it was sad and adorable but I don’t know if I could handle more than a trailer length clip
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Post by technoish on Apr 9, 2022 17:55:29 GMT
I can’t make myself want to even try and watch that sort of period drama. It always comes across as if it’s going to be about as deep and interesting as a soap but everyone being passive aggressive instead of shouting at each other. Bridgerton isn't even a period drama. It's something... else... It's a costume drama, but the whole period is basically a fantasy - not, to be clear, because of the races etc., that works in the same way it works in Shakespeare, and actually improves the show (and also wonderfully riled up the dumb bigot brigade), but because nothing actually works like the 1700s. Like case in point, early in the first episode, there's a girl who is like, very mildly rounded, and the other girls are being mean to her about it, and it's just 100% bullshit, because in the 1700s it'd be the opposite way around. The skinny girls would be mocked and sneered at. That's pretty well-recorded, historically. And the whole thing is like that (at least the first two episodes) - 21st century attitudes in a 1700s aesthetic and faux-setting. There's nothing entirely wrong with that - it can work - I loved Merlin which was absolutely not "authentic Arthurian" anything and mostly aimed at kids. But with Bridgerton my wife and I just found it utterly toothless and bland. I suspect it might improve if you keep watching it (a lot of soapy or melodramatic stuff does), but we didn't. It's even actually dated early 1800s (there was a memorial with a date on it), so it really is doing whatever it wants. |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Apr 9, 2022 17:59:41 GMT
I watched the trailer and it was sad and adorable but I don’t know if I could handle more than a trailer length clip You can and should. |
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Post by lexw on Apr 9, 2022 18:05:41 GMT
It's even actually dated early 1800s (there was a memorial with a date on it), so it really is doing whatever it wants. Oh boy lol from the clothes, mannerisms and political situation and so on I assumed late 1700s but yeah wow damn. Still the same point applies re: curvy girls, it's not until like at least the 1860s really you start getting this "skinny is hot" thing (which really seems to start as a sort of pedo or pedo-adjacent thing too), and not until the 1960s that it's full-on (historians of fashion etc. correct me if I'm wrong!). |
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Post by lexw on Apr 9, 2022 18:21:35 GMT
That’s now the kind of price where it’s not a permanent sub and people start storing things up to binge. I’m absolutely not getting 16 quids worth of content from Netflix a month, especially now they have lost Star Trek. Yep. If they'd somehow kept Star Trek, I really often do just randomly watch an episode of two of TNG or DS9 on there, and so I might have just rolled my eyes, but generally there is not a lot of good content on Netflix, not enough to remotely justify that sort of hike - or really any kind - right now they should be thankful we're subscribing at all. They hike it, I cancel. Maybe they can save the money from people cancelling by stopping spending literally tens of millions getting ageing and now-shit comedians to do dreadful "specials"? Or making quarter-assed "documentaries". |
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Post by anephric on Apr 9, 2022 20:09:50 GMT
Cancellations are up nearly 50% across most streaming services since this time last year, so I imagine they've got few options other than to double-down on existing subscribers and raise prices. Netflix's model seems to be insanely based on neverending growth, and they were already plateauing before the cost of living crisis.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2022 21:33:29 GMT
Fucking hell, the interview with one of Savile's victims remembering back in the new documentary is one of the most harrowing things I've ever sat though.
I find the whole thing utterly fascinating how he kind of hypnotized an entire country but her very childlike description of what happened is just heartbreaking.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Apr 9, 2022 22:11:23 GMT
Price hike to £15.99 a month incoming I've always been disappointed with the quantity of decent content on Netflix, outside of a couple big shows it's got very little that appeals. It's the weakest streaming option for me. |
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Post by dfunked on Apr 9, 2022 22:18:08 GMT
I'm just amazed that they've managed to fumble it so badly. Going from Netflix buttons on TV remotes and "Netflix and chill" levels of brand awareness, to just utterly failing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2022 22:31:08 GMT
Disney coming out with their own service really fucked them. WB/HBO too, in the countries it's available in. Having the two biggest studios pluck their content has left them with mostly straight-to-DVD trash.
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Post by anephric on Apr 9, 2022 22:47:58 GMT
Straight to DVD trash they spunk $200 million up the wall on.
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Post by スコットランド on Apr 9, 2022 22:56:00 GMT
I watched the trailer and it was sad and adorable but I don’t know if I could handle more than a trailer length clip You can and should. We watched 4 short episodes tonight, funny and cute. What's not to like. |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Apr 10, 2022 11:00:15 GMT
Exactly, we are 4 eps in too. Very easy and fun watch.
For us Netflix raised the price to 13 euro last year, no idea if they are going to do it again. Still think there is more than enough content to keep it and the kids find enough stuff to keep them happy. Even those trashy US crap shows are still good enough for late night casual viewing to fall asleep too that I find the other platforms lack.
HBO is probably going to raise prices too when they start integrating Discovery+ which is probably fair and can't come soon enough, they would then rival Disney as the best platform.
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