It wasn't just the content, it was the delivery of watching whatever you chose whenever you chose and wherever you chose for a reasonable monthly fee. Even without a massive catalogue it was 1000 times better than cable and the existing services that charged stupidly high fees for on demand temporary access.

It did have a lot of movies in addition to the series though, even if I had seen most of them because they started with the popular ones.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, what I miss most about early Netflix was the insane library they had of documentaries

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Good documentaries from quality sources too, like Planet Earth!

Not the sensationalist garbage they put out under their brand now.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Or Amazon putting out that dogshit Jim Caviezel right wing trash