Knoyleo wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:That's how it works?! That's pretty cool actually. Though I'd also like to see a traditional rating system, maybe one linked to Rotten Tomatoes, etc.
Yup. I'm not sure how the algorithm works, but it's worryingly accurate, to the point I'm pretty willing to watch anything with a high star rating, even if I've never heard of it before. My girlfriend and I have different user profiles on the same account and the star ratings we get for the same shows are different:
An overall rating system would be nice, but equally, I don't care if thousands of people love The Crown, if they can predict I'll hate it because I already rated "Down With The Monarchy 2: Electric Guillotine Boogaloo" 5 stars, and other people who've also rated that 5 starts gave The Crown 0 Stars, those are the opinions I care about.
For example.
Holt gooseberry fool! I have proof of Netflix *knowing* *me* better than I know myself: Netflix is chock full of stand-up shows, right? The vast majority of them are rated 2* or below for me. (Not an exaggeration.) I have no idea why that is the case, I mean it's not as though I've seen very many stand-ups on there and then rated them. Anyway! I avoided them thinking they were poorly rated in general, but then one day I spot a Jim Gaffigan show on there and it was very highly rated. Watched it. I loved it. I've since seen all his available shows on there, including the latest one,
Cinco, and am loving it as well. How did Netflix know I would like him?! I hadn't seen him in anything else. The first time I had even *heard* of him was the news about Fargo season 3.
But anyway, now that I know that the ratings are not general scores, but instead are possibly a very good guess on what I like based upon science/voodoo, I think I'm gonna go through Netflix again and give stuff I wrote off a
nother chance.