• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 hours ago

    I have a suspicion that Netflix is messing with the episode order for some folks.

    My partner and I were on the phone with their mom when she mentioned that she just started watching Black Mirror. I had a silent freakout moment and half-apologized for the early episodes being “pretty gnarly” but she mentioned the first one she saw was a USS Callister or something else.

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      5 hours ago

      The first episode for me was the VR fighting game (to avoid more spoilers), which didn’t exactly motivate me to watch more

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      17 hours ago

      Had it happen with love death and robots too. I think if there’s a new season out it starts you on the 1st ep of the newest “complete” season, which is really annoying.

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        13 hours ago

        Oh, I remember the controversy about that show! For Love, Death, and Robots season 1, Netflix randomly put people in one of four buckets (probably a hash of your account ID mod 4 or something), and your bucket determined your episode order.

        Apparently, they thought it would be a neat way to present an anthology series (since order doesn’t matter). Conspiracy theories arose that Netflix had sussed out peoples’ sexual orientation and were using that to determine the episode order.

        Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Love,_Death_%26_Robots_episodes

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      19 hours ago

      Its probably because she was episode 1 of a different season not season 1

      edit: actually you may be right others are saying similar stuff