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The Sunday Read: ‘How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library’

The Sunday Read: ‘How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library’

Update: 2024-10-272
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If you take a journey deep within Netflix’s furthest recesses — burrow past Binge-worthy TV Dramas and 1980s Action Thrillers, take a left at Because You Watched the Lego Batman Movie, keep going past Fright Night — you will eventually find your way to the platform’s core, the forgotten layers of content fossilized by the pressure from the accreted layers above.

Netflix’s vast library changed the business of television — in part by making a better product and showing the rest of the industry that it had to follow suit — but it also changed the very nature of television.


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The Sunday Read: ‘How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library’

The Sunday Read: ‘How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library’

The New York Times