{"id":530,"date":"2011-01-18T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:53:43","slug":"netflix-maybe-something-to-it-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Netflix &#8211; maybe something to it after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my initial disappointment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.ca\">Netflix<\/a> in Canada, it is more appealing than I originally thought. I&#8217;m still frustrated by the lack of &#8220;big name&#8221; movies &#8211; even those that are quite a bit older e.g. <em>2001<\/em> or <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>. On the positive side, I have found a few good films that I&#8217;ve really enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>The trick seems to be to &#8220;sneak up on them&#8221;. In other words, I never find movies by searching for movies I think I want to see &#8211; those are never available. Instead, I explore what movies are available, as linked to other movie suggestions. I haven&#8217;t found very many of the initial suggestions to be good enough to watch, but I believe that is a feature that gets better with time, so I&#8217;m willing to keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ve decided to keep our subscription going. At $8 per month, the cost of getting this decision wrong for a few months is not very high. Maybe that is why it works &#8211; it only takes one or two movies a month to make it feasible. We&#8217;ve run out of episodes of <em>Top Gear<\/em> to watch though, so now we need to find that next unexpected gem to watch. More than ever before, I&#8217;m confident we&#8217;ll find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my initial disappointment with Netflix in Canada, it is more appealing than I originally thought. I&#8217;m still frustrated by the lack of &#8220;big name&#8221; movies &#8211; even those that are quite a bit older e.g. 2001 or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. On the positive side, I have found a few good films [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-movies","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}