Netflix Originals are mostly bad - Is it just me?

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Are all of them bad?

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Polyboros2 said:
I think Tilda Swinton might just be a man, as I think her performance had a significant impact on there being little complaint with white washing and gender bending the Ancient One over China in Dr Strange.
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I get Tilda Swinton confused with Helen Mirren, who's also kind of mannish. Mirren starred in a version of The Tempest which gender-swapped Prospero and which started the real life theater tradition of genderswapping the character. Feminists wank themselves dry over this because Prospero is one of Shakespeare's most powerful characters, and making him a chick is a way to stick it to the Patriarchy for attacking women (witches) who practice magic, while giving men a pass. It's all so tiring.
 
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but this thread saves me the effort of making a thread for it.

Paradise PD, A show that is apparently a Seth Mcfarlane-style copy of another show, is a netflix original cartoon that just released it's 3rd season.

I watched it all over the last 3 days so here is a brief summary.

Season 1 is actually somewhat funny at times, it gave me a few chuckles but it's mostly just crass Family Guy tier humor for the most part. Don't let the opening fool you, as it is animated far better than the rest of the show. The fact Tom Kenny is in this makes me question his choice of projects.

Season 2 is just more of the same except somehow less funny and shoehorns in a connection to the other show i mention above. Lampshading that all your characters are just carbon copies of your previous shows characters isn't funny or subversive, it just highlights how little fucks you give. The finale is one giant clusterfuck to the point of incomprehension.

If season 2 was an excercise in them not giving a fuck then season 3 is them actively trying to get fired. Season 3 has to be one of the worst things I have ever watched. I didn't laugh once. It is even more crass and gross than the previous seasons, it constantly limps by on shitty running gags that are groan worthy at best and borderline cringe at its worst. There are numerous instances of them just stealing family guy and American dad jokes and plots for verbatim. They aren't homages or cheap shots, just straight up copied. If anybody actually watched this shit there could be grounds for a potential lawsuit because it is that obvious.

Season 1 was by no means fanatstic or even that good but it had the foundations there to build on to one day make something good. Season 2 showed that there wasn't anything there, just recycled character archtypes to hang their shitty jokes on. Season 3 has me questioning why I am still subscribed to netflix.
 
Everyone excited for The Irregulars, a show set in Victorian London where black Dr. Watson and a gang of street urchins led by a Chinese girl solve supernatural crimes while white man Sherlock gets all the credit?

It'll be shit and get cancelled after one season but still.
 
Whoever said:
Everyone excited for The Irregulars, a show set in Victorian London where black Dr. Watson and a gang of street urchins led by a Chinese girl solve supernatural crimes while white man Sherlock gets all the credit?

It'll be shit and get cancelled after one season but still.
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Not quite as bad as it initially sounded (I've managed to get through to episode 5). However it's clearly aimed at a younger audience despite getting a 15 rating because of all its swearing and a bit of gore and as such is full of plot holes and idiotic behaviour from the adults involved. Frankly Orson and Olivia did it better, darker and largely without the need for supernatural elements. And that was a French-Italian cartoon.

What is particularly offensive though is their childish, over sanitised idea of what the workhouses were like. Which is stupid because I was learning about that stuff in primary school and I suspect children still are. If a pre-teen is going to look at a character who allegedly had their jaw broken in the workhouse and immediately go "yeah, bullshit. That is not a serious injury treated with the medical skills of whichever doctor saw it a month or two after the break occurred and provided their medical expertise while drunk off their ass" then the show should have just avoided the topic entirely and could have done so effortlessly.

For those who will have missed out on the joy of learning about the workhouses they were a delight. For the most basic summary though it was borderline slavery with the health and safety standards of the Crash Test Dummies. Quite a few of the children that would have been sent there would have ended up as mule scavengers, people who essentially cleaned industrial machinery while it was still in use because the odd dead or mutilated worker was cheaper than stopping the machines.

Can't recommend it unless you're a fairly young teen. In which case I'd first of all suggest getting the hell off Kiwi Farms.
 
Netflix originals literally feel like procedurally generated entertainment. Stuff that isn’t made because somebody had a good idea for a show, but because an algorithm noticed some trend or other and demanded a show be put out to satisfy the demand.
 
I wanted go get into their version of a series of unfortunate events. At first I rewatched the 2004 paramount movie and then tried to continue from the Netflix series since the movie never had a sequel. But the two are way too different from each other. One clearly from the 2000s before wokeness infected everything especially Netflix and the other from the post 2015 or so age of wokeness.


The least of which is all the black washing they did. Aunt Josephine, and the poes got the worst of it. Mr Poe named after Edgar Allan Poe... Ya know a WHITE guy? And they made him, his wife and kids into fucking joggers *sigh*
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Netflix originals literally feel like procedurally generated entertainment. Stuff that isn’t made because somebody had a good idea for a show, but because an algorithm noticed some trend or other and demanded a show be put out to satisfy the demand.
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None of them even last long enough to make an impact.
 
The documentary on the Yorkshire Ripper is head and shoulders above all other true crime documentaries that came before. It puts on a clinic for how to tell a true crime story on film in the 21st century. The editing is fantastic, not a single cut or shot is wasted not a single second of it is extraneous. 10/10 even if every other Netflix original product was Battlefield Earth tier you could still say they have at least one masterpiece.
 
horrorfan89 said:
I wanted go get into their version of a series of unfortunate events. At first I rewatched the 2004 paramount movie and then tried to continue from the Netflix series since the movie never had a sequel. But the two are way too different from each other. One clearly from the 2000s before wokeness infected everything especially Netflix and the other from the post 2015 or so age of wokeness.


The least of which is all the black washing they did. Aunt Josephine, and the poes got the worst of it. Mr Poe named after Edgar Allan Poe... Ya know a WHITE guy? And they made him, his wife and kids knot fucking joggers *sigh*
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My problem with the Netflix series is that its comedy is too wacky. Part of what made the books so great was the insanely dry delivery of the humor. Everything was played straight, no matter how ridiculous, from the narrator's bizarre off-topic comments to Olaf's increasingly outlandish disguises. The books respected the audience enough to be in on the joke. The Netflix series on the other hand feels like it's constantly winking to the viewer, as if to say, "Look how crazy and silly this is?" I like Neil Patrick Harris, but his performance feels too goofy. Jim Carrey fit the role so much better; he carried not only the humor of Olaf, but also the menace, able to switch on a dime like in the books.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I'm cautiously optimistic about the upcoming Gokushufudo adaptation.
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I liked it.

At first I thought they'd gone full Reading Rainbow with the animation, but after the first "episode" I noticed that there was more dialogue, extra comedic beats added to the stories and some of them had an improved punchline at the end. Overall, it was like the comic had gotten an extra draft.

Wish it could have been more of an expansion, like the live-action series was, but the live-action series did have a different feel to it because it was hour-long episodes and there had to be story arcs, not just punchlines, and if you have a whole entire actor on the payroll, might as well keep them around.

I lent my mother the first Way of the House-Husband TPB but she just cannot into reading right-to-left, so I'm hoping she gets a kick out of this in between watching her hour-long dramas about sad British and Scandinavian cops.

I don't know enough about anime to post this in the real anime thread.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I liked it.

At first I thought they'd gone full Reading Rainbow with the animation, but after the first "episode" I noticed that there was more dialogue, extra comedic beats added to the stories and some of them had an improved punchline at the end. Overall, it was like the comic had gotten an extra draft.

Wish it could have been more of an expansion, like the live-action series was, but the live-action series did have a different feel to it because it was hour-long episodes and there had to be story arcs, not just punchlines, and if you have a whole entire actor on the payroll, might as well keep them around.

I lent my mother the first Way of the House-Husband TPB but she just cannot into reading right-to-left, so I'm hoping she gets a kick out of this in between watching her hour-long dramas about sad British and Scandinavian cops.

I don't know enough about anime to post this in the real anime thread.
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I watched the entirety of this last night and enjoyed it greatly.
 
CWCissey said:
I watched the entirety of this last night and enjoyed it greatly.
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I watched the live-action (Japanese Hulu) adaptation before. The live drama is 45-minute episodes with commercials, characters combined/separated, lots of dialogue, multi-episode arcs, Tatsu is also a stepfather -- it's good too, but it's way more adaptation; the pacing and the feel are different.

The main actor does a great job; I couldn't find any shots of his "creepy smile" but he absolutely nails that part. There's a lot of drama with the Ladies' Association shot exactly the same as a Yakuza drama would be shot.
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This anime is "we put the manga on the TV," so I'm glad they did, but I was kind of hoping it'd be... animated, I guess. This feels like they didn't take any risks, so it's good, but there's not much "new."
 
Can't recall if I've brought it up in this thread before, but if you're in the mood for a silly 3D anime that's more about characters than story per se, then I definitely recommend Hi Score Girl. The visuals are kind of low rate, but the payoffs are good. It's basically all about fighting games and features cameos from characters like Guile, Zangief etc.
 
Saw on Netflix there was a new original film, Stowaway. I thought it looked interesting so I looked up the trailer and before I watched it I made a prediction: the main characters will be black, asian and a white woman. Well wouldn't you know it, I was wrong. There was a black, an asian and two white women. They're really subverting our expectations with this one!
 
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I don't think anyone could do a good live action adaptation of The Sandman, and especially not Netflix, so my expectations were 0 and this is no surprise.
 
They made Death black on purpose to anger people. But nobody is going to hate watch this shit. They will just ignore it.
 
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