Due to streaming, the way people watch movies and shows has changed.

Because there is so much content and it’s so readily accessible, watching a movie isn’t an “event” anymore in the way it was when DVD or VHS was the only option. And when you pair this with second-screen devices (phones) then it all adds up to people treating movies as background entertainment while they scroll their phone or do something else.

And because of that, the way shows and movies are produced has changed, too. The reason everything seems like homogenous cookie-cutter crap is because it is. In fact Netflix have specifically been asking producers to dumb content down so viewers can still understand it even when they are only paying half attention.

Of course, there are still talented people out there making great movies and shows, but they are increasingly drowned in a sea of copy-paste crap.

And I also feel sorry for all those perhaps equally talented but less senior writers, directors, editors and artists who might never get to produce a movie they ate truly proud of because they’ve been captured by the streaming content factory that demands of them only a constant treadmill of dumbed-down crap, cheap and quick and instantly forgettable, that people will only ever half-watch.