Comments on: House of Cards, the Netflix Algorithms and Me http://filmmakermagazine.com/64544-house-of-cards-the-netflix-algorithms-and-me/ The Official Blog of Filmmaker Magazine Fri, 24 May 2013 04:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bombast #79 | SUNDANCE NOW http://filmmakermagazine.com/64544-house-of-cards-the-netflix-algorithms-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-17593 Bombast #79 | SUNDANCE NOW Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:46:39 +0000 http://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=64544#comment-17593 [...] was by Andrew Leonard in Salon.com, dated February 1st; the second, posted two days later, was by Scott Macauley in Filmmaker magazine; the third, from the day after that, was by Matt Singer at Indiewire. Both of the latter show good [...]

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]]> By: Tom Quinn http://filmmakermagazine.com/64544-house-of-cards-the-netflix-algorithms-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-17538 Tom Quinn Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:59:00 +0000 http://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=64544#comment-17538 We watched the first two last night and felt similarly. There is a detached quality to the show with no real stakes or complexity to the characters. I could hear every writing teacher I’ve ever had asking WHERE IS THE CONFLICT? It is like they plucked characters from Mad Men, The West Wing, and Sorpanos and sucked the duality and subtlety out. As for the direct address…. yikes. At least say something clever. Maybe they are mining the wrong data and forgot that, perhaps, people like well-written shows with stakes that take archetypes and show them something new. Perhaps the searchable brand names are secondary. If only this worked in my favor and huge numbers of people who loved Cheers, The Turin Horse, and Top Gun also watched The New Year Parade. Then, I could direct a slow, contemplative TV series where Woody Harrelson is an ex-fighter pilot who now sits alone in a bar, steadying himself before facing the cold wind outside and hollow ache of death within him.

]]> By: Mark Harris http://filmmakermagazine.com/64544-house-of-cards-the-netflix-algorithms-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-17537 Mark Harris Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:52:00 +0000 http://filmmakermagazine.com/?p=64544#comment-17537 Bad shows are bad shows, but producers using data to craft shows to their markets is about as old as entertainment itself. Netflix is simply leveraging the medium to do it a little differently.

I am more curious to see how their gamble to release whole seasons at once pays off. Again, this is catering to their audience. And I am very curious to see how this unlocks the form. You’re no longer tied to an hour, half hour, whatever the conventions are defined strictly by advertising. Many shows that do not have ads still stick to these conventions for no real reason other than that they are familiar to viewers.

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