Same team as “The toys that made us.”
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Been avoiding that series for the same reason. So, more interesting than just playing old toy commercials?
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I watched the first series. There are some old toy commercials, but also interviews with the people who designed and marketed the toys.
Which is kind of cool but also kind of scary when you look at things from a gender angle. The Barbie episode was fascinating from that point of view, as was He Man.
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I’m still waiting for “The Toys that made us: fischertechnik”…
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The Expanse is definitely made for bingeing
I used to wait months for something to happen, now it’s not a big deal
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Just started the first season of Castle Rock; weird, but I’m enjoying it.
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Fleabag.
In particular, the episode with the silent retreat,
“Oh. It’s very simple. We’ve paid them to let us clean their house in silence”
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The spinal tap skyscraper?
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Never gets old.
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I’m seeing some parallels between the end of Watchmen and the end of Game of Thrones
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Just binged Season 3. And in the process, realized I’d already watched most of the season, but between it and the books (and trying to get someone else to watch the show) I completly lost track of where I was. Last four or five episodes would have caught me up.
Now on to season 4…
I do think it’s really interesting how they mostly stick to the books, though sometimes they take a bit of a different path to get to the same result.
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AND … with one episode left, Mr. Robot has gone full Philip K. Dick
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I keep forgetting to watch Mr. Robot. I like it, I want to finish it, but until I see posts about it I forget it exists.
I blame the fact it isn’t streaming so I have to remember and go find it “on demand” and not reminded of it Everytime I log onto a streaming service.
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??? It’s streaming on Prime.
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Mr. robot? Really? I mean I know Prime’s what to watch is ludicrously broken, but…man
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It’s definitely on in Canada, because that’s the only place I’ve ever seen it.
I’m convinced all recommendation engines are broken. Every time I baby-sit my nieces, I watch my brother’s Netflix after the kids are in bed and discover all sorts of shows I’ve never even seen mentioned on my account.
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if we think of them as advertising rather than as helpful advice, maybe they make more sense
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Youtube’s recommendation engine is generally known to target whatever their current idea of an “engaged” user is… total amount of a video watched, number of likes and comments, or just overall “staying on the site”. It’s probably safe to assume the other ones are similar. Your tastes factor into it, but they’re not the entire calculation.
For myself, I think it’s a good idea to view recommendations in that light, accept whatever happy accidents it unearths, but generally push at the edges of what’s being recommended. And, once in a while, go out for something crazy that it wouldn’t predict.
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I put Netflix on time-out because I had had enough of the video for every tile always moving, the sound, etc. Fuck you guys. Netflix. I’d just about made up my mind that I wasn’t going to abandon them, then they cranked the annoying exploitive interface up to about 13.5
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