Did Netflix buy Bollywood?

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Netflix advertises "106 new shows added this week".

100 of them are from India. WTF?

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For every A-list movie, they have to pad their content with a dozen shitty movies.

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Yeah. Having to wade through all the Bollywood films and shitty B-movies is definitely getting worse/more noticeable.

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^^Da Fuq?

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100 of them are from India. WTF?

Are there any about call centers and technical support? You know where the crazed American travels to India and raises hell. I would watch that.

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100 of them are from India. WTF?

Are there any about call centers and technical support? You know where the crazed American travels to India and raises hell. I would watch that.

"Unplugged in Mumbai" with Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Steven Segal does a cameo as the Shift Supervisor.

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You say that like it's a bad thing.

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cas

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Originally posted by Orguss:
For every A-list movie, they have to pad their content with a dozen shitty movies.

A dozen? Ha!

It's like redbox, for every movie you've even HEARD OF, good, bad and in between, there's 100 you haven't.

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meh, PHP, just turn your hearing aids down.

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meh, PHP, just turn your hearing aids down.

Maybe if I dumped Netflix I could afford hearing aids.

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meh, PHP, just turn your hearing aids down.

Maybe if I dumped Netflix I could afford hearing aids.

Lol, some of the stuff is not as bad. There is a canadian show. Indian detective that was quite funny

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You say that like it's a bad thing.

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I that a Tarantino flick?

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Netflix advertises "106 new shows added this week".

100 of them are from India. WTF?

Yeah, Netflix has been slowly going downhill since they lost Starz several years ago. Used to be we watched a lot of Netflix. Now relatively little. Just finished Hell On Wheels (which was an AMC series, I would note) and found nothing new of interest.

Most of their own content seems to be targeted to sell on a mix of CGI, graphic violence, nudity and sex, rather than well-scripted stories with intelligent plot lines and good acting. The only one my wife and I actually liked enough to get all the way though a full "season" was Ozark.

In fact, upon reflection: Of the number of series' we've truly liked, and there've been several, only one, Ozark, was a Netflix Original.

Oh yeah... Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was funny the first season. Went right into the crapper in the second.

If they keep going in this direction I imagine we'll eventually drop them.

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For every A-list movie, they have to pad their content with a dozen shitty movies.

"A dozen"?!?!?

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
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meh, PHP, just turn your hearing aids down.

Maybe if I dumped Netflix I could afford hearing aids.

Lol, some of the stuff is not as bad. There is a canadian show. Indian detective that was quite funny

Concur. I liked that show a lot and hope it has more seasons.

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