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Netflix recently announced its biggest jump in subscribers — now nearly 302 million globally — and its film “Emilia Perez” is up for 13 Oscar awards this year.
But the majority of Netflix’s original productions are not at all memorable, says Will Tavlin, who wrote an article called “Casual Viewing: Why Netflix looks like that,” in the latest issue of n+1.
He tells Here & Now‘s Scott Tong that they are created with distracted viewers in mind with poor production values, bad dialogue and boring titles.
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