Almost definitely imo

Tried it. It just tried to make me watch the Modern Family pilot. Every time.

Would love a feature where I could select, say, some sitcoms and get served random episodes of them

Saudi Arabia 100% will. They want anything that has longevity to keep making them money, and WWE has got that

I'm sure you're only into the most high brow of entertainment

I'm a huge wrestling fan, and I always find that, if people happen to come over when wrestling is on, they get into it. It's a lot of fun if you don't pay attention to the haters

The only time I used it, it started an episode of New Girl from season 5. I've never watched New Girl, nor was it on my list or anything. It was so odd.

We’ll deserved. Wish he would of kept doing movies instead of tv shows. New Jack City and Trespass was legit..

I used it one time and watched a nice documentary about queen Elizabeth and her sister. Never used the button again though.

Some of those best drama picks over Better Call Saul… Have we lost our minds?

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they only release a few episodes at a time

God, does ANYTHING please you fucking people? Oh no not a completely optional way to watch something you otherwise might not have chosen yourself that you could easily stop watching if it sucked! Why can't they just make a streaming service that only has every episode of The Office and films that came out a day ago but only the GOOD ones and it should be free and have no commercials and not have anything that other people might like because it should only have titles and features I personally like!

BBT and The Middle for example are owned by WB and stream on HBOMax ,it wouldn't make sense for those networks to promote properties any more that make someone else money.

You are right about New Girl though,it's owned by 20th century fox so they should have every fiancial incentive to try and keep a social media presence. Even if the show doesn't end up on one of their streaming services,the more popular the show is on Netflix the more money they can charge them. Not to mention the show probably works better as a binge streaming show then it did as a weekly network series during it's initial run.

Okay but you could still do that even with the shuffle option. Jesus fucking christ the entitlement, "they should get rid of this OPTION because I don't like it."

I don't think it's a stupid idea at all. People always complain about how there's so much content on streaming services that they just scroll for 30 minutes before deciding to watch something they've seen 100 times already, so a shuffle button that just takes you to something random so you don't have to pick is a good idea, if it was implemented well.

they actually have this in some countries

Is it really only two episodes? Is this like a movie or something? I was going to start last night but was too tired.

One of the many flaws of the English language is that "drops" means both "released" and "removes". You'd think a professional writer might choose a different word for their headline.

Is this the guy that makes all the performers be independent contractors so they don’t get health care?

This feature was so stupid as an idea imo. 9/10 series or films suck on netflix. Give me rather the whole genre lists. Several series or films don't appear when you scroll the genre lists. You have to write the title into the search bar to find some films. I know there was a browser code for that you attach at the netflix url. But for some time even that didn't work I hear.

All streaming services have that problem and I don't understand why.

People vastly underestimate how much WWE's popularity has reached out worldwide.

It's bordering on transcending being a banner American wrestling show. Getting into territory like say, Cirque du Soliei or something. It doesn't matter that much anymore if it's a niche thing back home, they can go just about anywhere in the world and draw humongous crowds just because it's an attraction in and of itself.

> all it did was force Netflix originals on me

You say that like it wasn't the entire purpose...

This did not surprise me

This might not sound like a huge deal, but one of the big consistent things Vince McMahon has done over the years is buying up the tape libraries of just about any rival or defunct wrestling promotion you can imagine. At least US ones. So you aren't just getting the rights to WWE's massive well of their own content, it's basically buying the rights to decades of wrestling history to boot.

That plus the fact they have a lot of investment in things like their own film production arm, stuff like that...even if Star Wars is more popular than WWE today that doesn't always translate to being worth more as a whole bundle.

I believe Steve's widow cashed put. Unfortunately I think Murdoch is now up there due to the fox sale