The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world.::undefined

  • Butt Pirate@reddthat.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Netflix’s single most popular anything from January and June 2023 was a recent thriller series called The Night Agent, which was streamed for 812 million hours globally.

    Saved you a click.

    And The Night Agent was a fantastic show. You should go watch it.

    • rahmad@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      Was it? It was fine – that thing you throw on because you’ve watched most of everything else that fills that kind of derivative political action conspiracy thriller. Not particularly intelligent, not particularly funny, a loose enough plot that you can be paying attention once every 5 minutes and get by. Some folks get shot. There’s a conspiracy ooooOOOOoooh.

      Maybe that’s what defines good these days, when content is just a glut of mediocrity.

      I was shocked it was up top the list in terms of ‘quality,’ but I watched it because, it was there… So, I guess that explains it?

      The Recruit (similar vein) was a superior show in terms of quality. Recommend that if you need a quick fix.

      • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        AAA quality is wanting these days. I just got done watching Rebel Moon. Apparently a $166m budget movie. Completely devoid of anything resembling a story or characters.

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Ehh, it really wasn’t. But I also couldn’t get into Squid Game either. I’m sure they are fine, but nothing I haven’t seen plenty of times over.