I’ve never gotten into Netflix or HBO.
I hear they have original programming, but, with only 24 hours in a day, a finite amount of time to watch TV, a finite amount of money to spend on entertainment, people make their choices.
My choice has been not to get into all that. I hear about The Handmaid’s Tale or and Game of Thrones, among others, but I do not know anything about them. I have a full life without keeping up with everything in the popular culture, or the various new ways to watch TV.
If you aren’t into Netflix original programming, the pickings get slim from there.
Lots of C movies interspersed with some low B movies.
It’s why I canned them. Hulu has some good A/B movies and awesome TV package, including local channels. Super pleased so far.
I still look at usenet's rec.arts.tv (or whatever the name is).
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