I don’t know if it’s the same for you, but lately I’ve been having a hard time finding anything “good” on Netflix. Sometimes I look at my watch and realize that I’m spending more time cutting out endless rows than watching something from start to finish. The last series that supported me was the Top Boy workshop. Since then, things have become difficult. Sometimes the old and classic “Office” saves the situation.

Of course, Netflix won’t lose sleep if I don’t find something to watch. Worldwide, the king of live streaming has 220 million subscribers, although he lost a million this year. One solution the service will try is to block known code sharing and release a cheaper version with ads. So how is it different from traditional television? But that’s for later.

However, I can’t help but recall a line by American film producer Aaron Ryder (Remember, The Arrival, The Prestige) in a very good interview given to him by Emilios Harbis (8/8/2022): “Do I really need Netflix?”

Ryder’s question is not as rhetorical as it seems. How many really good series and movies can the platform fund, and how many of them can a viewer watch? Of course, in the midst of a pandemic, platforms were the way out, but how many series with the same cases and crowded cycles can you afford to watch 2-3 excellent productions of the year?

It would be unwise to make rash predictions about the “death of the platform”. I again agree with Ryder that no one knows what will happen in the film industry in the next 10 years. But I know for sure that I’d rather take the risk of choosing a movie in the theater (even if it’s bad) than endlessly scroll through the rows of descriptions like “suspense”, “slow burning”, “spartan”.