So, before I begin, I need to make it clear that, despite ‘‘Buy EU’’ movement (am European) and my sincere (and ancient) aspiration to abandon US Tech, I remained Netflix subscriber (because I found myself a niche of series and movies (think Star Trek, Downton Abbey, Virgin River, Things that made us…) that I enjoy watching, so… this was my Achiles heel and I accepted that I might not be ‘‘perfect in every way’’ and just remained with the subscription.
However, there are things that are beginning to disturb me (in a very deep sense) about Netflix, that might really lead me to cancel my subscription:
Namely, I grew rather fond of ‘‘Resident Alien’’ and I do believe that series is great (at least the first season). However, somewhere down the middle (of second season), the series started to take the dark turn and actually thumbled down to gore-violence (when Harry/Alien basically decapitates the secret agent and throws her off the train). I mean, the series had already some ‘‘icky’’ moments, but this is just pure GORE.
I did not sign up for gore! I signed up for entertainment. And gore - is not entertainment. It is deeply disturbing violence. And standardizing that in the form of entertainment is - sick. Simply - sick.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a churchgoer or a religious fanatic or anything like that, but I am aware enough to consciously decide not to watch things that damage my mental health. And if Netflix decides to insert such things casually (and into viewer’s heads), then Netflix is a sick network and not for me. Simple as that.
Furthermore, if Netflix producers think that gore is fun, then (as a person who has been through balkan wars, sleeping in a shelter…) they are welcome to spend some time in Gaza, Ukraine or Mexico. They can take their Gore-addicts with them, too.
I do understand that ‘‘R.A.’’ is SyFy/USA Network production, but Netflix productions are utter horror in that (violence) sense. Even worse.
So… I do intend to transfer my evening entertainments exclusively to DVD’s.
How do you see Netflix in the above sense?
You sound a bit like a churchgoer or a religious fanatic or something like that
My son, only God can judge me. ;-)
I assume the down votes didn’t even bother to read your post lol. Been meaning to check out Resident Alien, love that actor in whatever he’s done
The series actually started quite tranquil… and had moments of beautiful vivisection of human psychology… but then, suddenly, almost out of nowhere… I had to deal with detailed decapitation.
That’s a hard no for me.
The more I think about it… the more I’m certain that Netflix will have some hard time surviving my subscription list through this week.