Netflix is the most popular and used streaming service in the world. It earns this status with probably the most varied offering. Every week a new series, a new film or a new exciting documentary starts. The streaming app is also one of the best the entertainment industry has to offer.
Reasons to support the powerful streaming giant and its Content However, there was plenty to criticize in 2023. Perhaps more than any other year before. We have the biggest ones in the Moviepilot editorial team Netflix sins from the last 12 months collected. Every contribution reflects the opinion of an editor.
Netflix’s James Bond hope with Gal Gadot is a failure
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Netflix keeps releasing big action films and all too often only the next disappointment awaits. Heart of Stone hit me particularly hard this year. This is where Wonder Woman Gal Gadot was set up as a potential Netflix Bond. And the spy thriller actually provided exciting, heartfelt entertainment until minute 50. Only to then make the most fatal twist decision of the streaming year and completely smear it. If the potential hadn’t been so great, perhaps that fall from the heights of a zeppelin wouldn’t have hurt so much. But as …? (IT)
The measures against account sharing have destroyed my Netflix experience
2023 was the year in which Netflix implemented its announcement to limit password sharing. Anyone who does not share the most expensive premium subscription with people who live in the same household will no longer have access to their account. The streaming reality of many Netflix users has been impaired, if not completely destroyed – including mine. For years, I used the Netflix account, in which four people can stream at the same time and create four profiles, with four people who I know very well but don’t live together. Why not? This is now over. My “Netflix shared apartment” fell apart in 2023.
Yes, of course, Netflix isn’t doing this for fun and needs to increase its profits. Yes, of course, the company has theoretically always prohibited password sharing or account sharing. But that doesn’t make this rule any more useful. (HB)
Rebel Moon is the biggest sci-fi disappointment of the year
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Rebel Moon
Rebel Moon was supposed to be Netflix’s Star Wars: a gigantic sci-fi franchise with a film trilogy, series, video games, comics and even a podcast. Parts 1 and 2 cost a combined $166 million. For months I was looking forward to the start of Rebel Moon – Part 1: Child of Fire. And was disappointed. The story is borrowed from larger models down to the last detail. That’s not a bad thing, Snyder fans will say, instead there are bombastic images. But that doesn’t exist. The CGI is reminiscent of video game sequences, the action scenes are chopped up by the editing. Hopefully Zack Snyder saved the big bang for part 2. (JF)
The cancellation of Shadow and Bone and cancellations in general
Netflix produces more series than any studio in the world. Many of these series end prematurely after the first or second season. Many stories remain unfinished and fans despair. It is always the same. If you want to understand what that means, just look at the reaction to the cancellation of Shadow and Bone after Season 2. Netflix can’t continue every series that clearly hasn’t found a large enough audience. But why are there so many popular series among them? The lack of understanding for these decisions is growing. (HB)
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Netflix showed its worst side in the Hollywood strike
In 2023, a major double strike paralyzed the film and series industry in the USA. Screenwriters from the WGA union and actors from the SAG-AFTRA union took to the streets to fight for better wages, fair royalties, more transparency in streaming and clear rules for the use of AI technology. Netflix in particular was criticized and was partly responsible for the strike dragging on for so long. Netflix once entered the industry as a disruptor and courageously questioned established models. Suddenly the streamer behaved like a conservative studio that doesn’t want to look into the future. (MH)
Netflix doesn’t want you to watch the series highlight DP
The South Korean drama series DP has always been an insider tip in this country. The story about a young soldier who is transferred to a deserter hunter detachment is emotional, harrowing and damn good. After a two-year break, DP returned this year with (an outstanding) season 2. Anyone who has previously watched the series in German has been extremely offended by Netflix. A German dubbed version for the new episodes? None! In doing so, Netflix is denying itself the chance that this gem of a series can get the attention it deserves in this country. (MW)