Board 8 > A Netflix Original Series

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Why is netflix putting this on practically everything it gets these days?

I always thought of shows produced and funded by Netflix as Netflix Original Series. They've done an incredible job doing this with all kinds of shows. They've had misses, but overall in the past whenever I'd see "netflix original series" I'd be all 'hot damn what have you got for me this time??"

But lately it seems like anything they get distribution rights to they just slap that tag on there.

Like in the regions they have Star Trek Discovery, it opens up with the "Netflix Original Series" screen This isn't a netflix show. This is a CBS show, and more relevantly, a CBS All Access show.

A while ago, a show came up in my recommendations called Shadowhunters, and it said it was a Netflix Original Series. It looked like a supernatural kind of show which I like so I gave it a try. It was god awful. I looked into it, and it was actually made and aired by some US network, and Netflix just got the rights to air it in Canada. So they... had nothing to do with making that show.

I feel like this is really dumb and makes me think negatively of netflix original shows - the tag just means so much less than when I associated it with House of Cards or Daredevil.
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Because you associate it with quality, which makes you more likely to watch things with it, which earns Netflix more money.
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As I understand it, Netflix provided most of the money for Star Trek Discovery, so even though CBS made it, it's part-owned by Netflix, which makes it 'theirs' in the regions they distribute it.
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netflix never intended "a netflix original series" to be a sign of quality

netflix aims to grow to a huge base of subscribers and wants to make shows that appeal to all of these various groups based on what people like to watch, some people like to watch dumbass shows. they put netflix original series so you think you are getting a better value out of your subscription by seeing all these shows that are netflix shows.

velocycloraptor posted...

netflix never intended "a netflix original series" to be a sign of quality

netflix aims to grow to a huge base of subscribers and wants to make shows that appeal to all of these various groups based on what people like to watch, some people like to watch dumbass shows. they put netflix original series so you think you are getting a better value out of your subscription by seeing all these shows that are netflix shows.

What you are saying in the second paragraph does imply a sign of quality - people are more likely to watch something with that tag because they think it should be better.

They are diluting that by just slapping it on anything they think they can get away with though...

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Because you associate it with quality, which makes you more likely to watch things with it, which earns Netflix more money.

That's a pretty short term goal though for a company that invests billions in original content with the intention of creating a brand of good original content...
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