I’m Beginning to Feel a Little Disturbed by a Certain Pattern in Netflix’s Movies
The idea that the algorithm knows our innermost fears and desires is mostly a marketing construct, but there’s something a little unsetting about the fact that a company that purports to base its decisions on cold, hard data keeps turning out stuff about the end of the world. From Bird Box to The Electric State, Sweet Tooth to The Society, Netflix has been serving up one postapocalyptic scenario after another, stories of what it will be like after most of humanity has ceased to live.
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The idea that the algorithm knows our innermost fears and desires is mostly a marketing construct, but there’s something a little unsetting about the fact that a company that purports to base its decisions on cold, hard data keeps turning out stuff about the end of the world. From Bird Box to The Electric State, Sweet Tooth to The Society, Netflix has been serving up one postapocalyptic scenario after another, stories of what it will be like after most of humanity has ceased to live. People have been telling stories about the end of the world for as long as they’ve been telling stories, but if 325 million households are choosing to watch the human race get snuffed out often enough to justify the unending river of content, that feels to me less like a healthy confrontation of our own fragility and more like a collective death wish. The latest entry in the Armageddon minigenre—keywords: cataclysm, annihilation—is The Last House, in which an unremarkable family of four becomes humanity’s last holdout.
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- The idea that the algorithm knows our innermost fears and desires is mostly a marketing construct, but there’s something a little unsetting about the fact that a company that purports to base its decisions on cold, hard data keeps turning out stuff about the end of the world. From Bird Box to The Electric State, Sweet Tooth to The Society, Netflix has been serving up one postapocalyptic scenario after another, stories of what it will be like after most of humanity has ceased to live.
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I’m Beginning to Feel a Little Disturbed by a Certain Pattern in Netflix’s Movies
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