Ever get worried the growing intelligence of technology will make your own preferences obsolete as it gets more accurate in predicting your tastes? I did. Until today.
Here is what Netflix believes my categorical tastes in movies to be:
-Independent Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
-Critically-Acclaimed Political Movies
-Romantic Foreign Musicals
-Critically-Acclaimed Television Shows
-Sentimental Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Dear Netflix, if you only knew. The categories really should be:
-Movies By or Starring Any Person Remotely Connected To Judd Apatow
-Schlocky, Critically-Panned Romantic Comedies
-Teen Comedies Centered On The Trials and Tribulations Of, Like, The Big Dance
-TV Shows No Longer Broadcast On Any Network or Cable Entity
-BBC Movies or Series, Particularly Those Featuring Richard Armitage
I would be ashamed, but I am so proud that my Netflix queue defies expectations and baffles the Netflix’s algorithm that I feel a need to share my tastes with the Internet. Of course, said Internet will likely report said bragging back to Netflix, which will modify itself to meet my supposed desires. So perhaps, Sentimental Sci-Fi & Fantasy isn’t too far off.
P.S.-Netflix, if you are reading this, any Sentimental Sci-Fi & Fantasy category that does not include a single one of the original Star Wars flicks is incomplete. And you know it.
