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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by wyldfire on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:42PM (#19391549)
> True Detective, a Mindhunter.

"Mindhunter" was great but it's no "True Detective" IMO.

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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by sharkweek on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:47PM (#19391592)
Mindhunter was basically the Netflix algorithms saying "True Detective is popular, let's do that!"
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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by sspyder on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:25PM (#19391934)
No, it was David Fincher wanting to do a crime series. Netflix orders a lot of crappy algorithm based content but a lot of their content is created through purchasing other people's ideas/concepts.
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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by tptacek on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:08PM (#19391785)
Mindhunter's first (and only) season is much better than True Detective 2 and arguably better than True Detective 3.

I like the idea that Netflix needed an algorithm to discover that people like true crime detective stories.

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