After Ricky Gervais' Latest Stand-Up Special, Who Is Netflix Even For?

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There was a time when Netflix was king of the world. I've been a Netflix subscriber since it was called Love Film, and the movies weren't sitting waiting for you on your TV but instead were posted to you in little paper envelopes. You had to be careful with your watchlist back then, or risk being sent Vanilla Sky or Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium because you'd ticked them on a whim. When Netflix entered the streaming era, it completely uprooted traditional television and offered a bright new future. Flash forward a decade or so, and that future continues to expand - unfortunately for Netflix, it's not yet clear whether it has a place in it.

Netflix was head and shoulders ahead of everyone else when streaming began. It wasn't just the new kid on the block, it was the only kid on the block - a little Richie Rich in a hard hat demolishing cable TV and building a hi-tech mansion in its place. Before long, Netflix Originals arrived, and while you can certainly reel off duds, there were several that pierced our cultural zeitgeist and became the most talked about shows on the planet. Orange is the New Black led the charge, followed by BoJack Horseman, The Crown, and Stranger Things. This trend seems to be changing though - Bridgerton received more viewers in its first year than any of those shows listed, but with eyeballs now spread all over the place, and Netflix no longer the only game in town, it didn't feel like part of the pop culture fabric as Stranger Things did. And I say 'did', not 'does', because even as Stranger Things' new series is set to launch, the biggest talking points are the overlong and probably indulgent episode lengths.

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