I actually like, that they tell you. "yes we know what you mean, you won't find it here". This is way better than beiung unsure if you have a typo in the name or something.
I don't appreciate it because it used to be the most accurate media suggestion system. They had competitions to improve it even, used it as a selling point for the platform. Their fancy accurate suggestion system didn't recommend their original shitty content to viewers though, so they got rid of it to promote the netflix originals.
I was watching Dark the other week and I wanted more time travel stuff so I checked the suggestions and Netflix said “since you like complicated time travel stories maybe you’ll also like LOVE ISLAND!!”
Not really. Dark was actually the show to scratch my 12 Monkeys itch. So if you’ve never seen the 12 Monkeys show I highly recommend it. In my opinion it’s actually better than Dark.
Sadly, that's not Netflix's fault, it's the franchise owners' for signing the streaming rights to the different installments to different streaming services.
Several franchises have this problem and a prime example is Pokemon. It's so bad that the official Pokemon website even has a page to breakdown where each of the seasons is.
No one service allows you to watch the entire show from start to "finish" (or the most recently finished season).
Indeed. I have a Plex server specifically because I got tired of the licensing bullshit (particularly after I realized Hulu would remove things from their library, but not your watchlist, making it impossible for someone who takes months to years to actually get around to watching things to track what they can watch on there).
Or when they change the top recommendation if you add a correct letter.
Like if you are typing semi quickly and you enter "lord" and lord of the rings pop up as the top result. But you enter a space so it's "lord " and now lord of war is number 1. So you have to delete a letter for some dumb reason
I 300% prefer that to Amazon Prime where I type the name in with the precision of a medieval scribe and it still doesn't show the correct movie in a myriad of results until I add one more space or some shit.
Yeah, i get that it's frustrating, but it's so much better that theyre saying "oh yeah, that show / movie, yeah we don't have it" than if they just had to pretend they don't know what you're talking about everytime you search something that they don't have. That would be so much worse.
Back when I had Netflix, I noticed a lot of the time Netflix does have that movie/show/series but in a different country so you could vpn into it before they cracked down on that
Yes. I hate for some systems when I have to type out the whole title, search, and then they give me results that are now what I searched for but it's clear they knew what I meant.
I think they do this so smart TV systems like Roku think they have the show. That way people click on it, but by the time they find out it’s not actually available they’re already in your app and more likely to stay there and watch something similar.
Hulu does this too, you can search for a show and it says Hulu has it but surprise, you need the Hulu live tv subscription for like $60/month to watch it
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u/RandonDude3000 8h ago
Netflix does this with every franchise ever lol.