By my count, Netflix has released 563,244 original movies in the last ten years. No seriously; I counted. It took a while, but I did it.
Oops! They just premiered two more films while I wrote that last sentence — so that’s now a total of 563,246 movies in the last ten years.
All right, so maybe I am exaggerating the number just a little bit. But not by much. In the ten-plus years since Netflix first released Beasts of No Nation straight to its then-nascent streaming platform, it has grown into one of the biggest producers and distributors of new movies in the entire world. They debut several new movies every single week, 52 weeks a year.
With all those movies, it stands to reason that the vast majority will not be all that great. (Even if they were, how could you remember all 563,