Except, psst, Netflix has never made a great show or movie. Rather than pay the expensive licensing fees to stream other studio’s content, they’re electing to just make their own stuff now. Netflix’s streaming library has long been a punch line and it’s getting worse. These are all true! And yet Netflix DVDs still blow the shit out of every provider combined in the only three areas that people care about for this sort of thing.
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You can stream most things directly to your TV so why include the disc/disc-player middle men? It lacks the convenience of streaming options because you have to wait for the mail. I just Googled “netflix dvd service” and two of the top links are “Netflix’s shrinking DVD service faces uncertain future” and “When Will Netflix Kill Its DVD Service?” The criticisms are fair. If not for the DVDs and occasional FOMO from their streaming service I’d happily punt Netflix into a volcano.īeing the last millennial to actually pay for the DVD service means I’m at the butt end of grief on occasion. But Netflix? Nah, they’re just a corporation trying to sell me Amy Schumer and Kevin Spacey breaking the fourth wall. If anything, I feel wistful for the tacky blue walls and stale popcorn scent of Blockbuster.
It’s not nostalgia for the red envelopes fueling this monthly transaction. Yet the best content* service in my life is Netflix’s DVD-by-mail subscription service, which I’ve happily paid for each month since 2009 and will until they decide it’s no longer worth the postage servicing the six dozen people that still pay for it. Hulu’s library is garbage nobody needs Hulu.
There’s probably a Redbox on my porch fully loaded with copies of Trolls. I, ahem, “have access” to Amazon Prime and the quartet of premium cable movies channels (HBO/Starz/Cinemax/Showtime).