Yeah, for some reason Netflix shows don't capture my attention too well.
That's just the thing, it's not a netflix show. This was a medium-budget holywood movie with Brad Pit that was actually in cinemas... The production values are outstanding, what I don't get is how anybody ever agreed to waste all that effort on a script like this.
As for Netflix shows... well, the iron rule goes, 90% of everything is crud. So if you have one streaming service, statistically 90% on that will be crud. Of the remaining 10%, 50% to 80% just don't interest a specific person, no matter how good they may be. It's always been that way, we just notice it more because most of us don't want to have 5 different subscriptions running to go "zapping"... I can live with that, though I guess at some point streaming services will have to start bundling up. At which point I guess it's basically just cable, except you can set your own schedule...
Even the scifi stuff seems mediocre.
Oh, if it was at least mediocre. So far "Lost in space" was the only Netflix-
produced scifi show that I could halfways enjoy. Luckily, there's a good deal of third-party content around (I mean, you get basically
all of star treck, that's worth
something...). If they'd manage to onboard a couple more classic series, like the entire Stargate franchise and B5, it would actually be pretty decent.
But yeah, Netflix
producing scifi usually has very underwhelming results. They just don't seem to have any producers on board that actually understand the genre...