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1. afavou+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-05 14:25:59
The Crown is absolutely a prestige TV show. Stranger Things is also high quality and high budget. You could probably include Bridgerton in there too, it's not my kind of show but I can still recognize that it's a well put together one.
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2. Toucan+L1[view] [source] 2025-12-05 14:33:36
>>afavou+(OP)
The problem is all the crap kills the prestige. HBO remains what HBO is because they don't put out 600 other shows besides Game of Thrones that are utter garbage.

Netflix is the Walmart of entertainment at this point. Yeah you can find basically anything there- and VERY occasionally, you'll find something damn good- but you're wading through a sea of mediocre shit to do so.

And like, personally I unsubbed forever ago because I'm not interested in subsidizing all the garbage to get the occasional Frankenstein. Meanwhile I've maintained an HBO subscription for that entire time.

Obviously I am but one data point here and I know my opinion is in the minority, but yeah. I don't pay attention much to Netflix.

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3. Sunlig+A2[view] [source] 2025-12-05 14:37:36
>>afavou+(OP)
Its subjective, and full of nuance, but I do feel that Netflix has its own style that is very different to HBO's style. Consider the witcher vs game of thrones or black mirror pre-netflix vs post netflix. Its not black and white though, as Netflix animations (Castlevania, Pluto etc.) are amazing TV, but personally I would much rather watch a HBO show than a Netflix one - especially if its a fantasy/science fiction one where Netflix's style isn't one I find appealing.
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4. Mindwi+87[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-05 14:57:23
>>Toucan+L1
The HBO Max that had "Fboy Island" yeah?

HBO was never what you thought it was, and HBO Max definitely wasn't.

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5. quickt+b9[view] [source] 2025-12-05 15:07:15
>>afavou+(OP)
Nothing that Amazon has produced comes even close to what HBO produced between 1995-2015. Netflix programming is cargo cult TV.
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6. mrguyo+2k1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-05 20:24:05
>>Toucan+L1
HBO remains what HBO is because they don't put out 600 other shows besides Game of Thrones that are utter garbage.

Here is a list of hundreds and hundreds of HBOs work over the past several decades. How many do you even recognize the name of? 20%?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HBO_original_programmi...

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