We've enjoyed Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds, but aside from that, ended up regretting any time spent watching anything else and I really have no interest in any of the things they say are in development. There moments when I'm more optimistic but the true test is if we rewatch something and those are the only two that have passed that test. For the most part though, I agree that, regardless of services, the self-made stuff is pure crap. I feel even more strongly about that with Netflix though but its true for all of them.
As an avid Star Trek fan, I'd rather see the franchise go into hibernation for a decade than see anymore Kurtzman Trek. Most of it has been absolutely painful to watch. The Kelvin Reboot movies sucked ***, Star Trek Discovery is bar none the worst Star Trek series ever produced by a long shot. Lower Deck's is surprisingly good and Strange New Worlds is a mixed bag at best. Some episodes are absolutely ****ing cringe inducing and others are rather excellent. Picard Seasons 1 and 2 are the equivalent of digital rectal cancer.
That leaves Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds and Season 3 of Picard as being the only watchable entries in the franchise since 2009. Even then, when Strange New Worlds sucks, it sucks harder than a $20 hooker on payday. The musical episode was horrible. The episode where Spock becomes human was basically modeled after a ****ing sitcom.
I can write a ****ing thesis about how mishandled the Spock character has been on SNW. That's left overs from SNW spawning from Discovery. Because its all JJ/Kurtzman Trek, everything but Lower Decks seems to have been negatively influenced by both the Kelvin movies and the aptly named STD. The few issues I have with Picard Season 3 inherit their problems from Ronald D. Moore, because Terry Matalas is too busy choking on the guy's cock and was an avid Battlestar Galactica fan.
What I think of that show is its own subject, but the out of place conflicts and super dark lighting all come from that influence. Despite this, Picard Season 3 came out pretty good for the most part. It would have been better without the BSG influence and without having inherited baggage from Seasons 1 and 2 of Picard. Under the circumstances and despite his knee level worshipping of Ron Moore, its probably as good as can be under those circumstances.
Every episode of Discovery is basically as painful as the Voyager Warp 10 episode. The best episodes of that show are only as good as Spock's Brain or the episode of TNG where Doctor Crusher has sex with a ghost.
As for Netflix and everyone else, its still a mixed bag. Netflix's movies and TV shows are generally awful but they've got a lot of cheaply made documentary shows that are decent if you are into that. Though some of them like "Making a Murderer" show clear bias and leave out a lot of information.
The whole industry has been making garbage for the better part of 10 years now. There are very few truly successful movies every year. There are very few successful TV shows. Franchises that once printed money are floundering and the companies behind them throw out every excuse they can while failing to acknowledge the real problem. Beyond being creatively bankrupt and out of steam, their attempts at social engineering, the infusion of identity politics and girl boss nonsense is causing them to bleed money and subscribers.
It's self-immolation. These services will self-destruct. Not only because of the **** content they've produced, but because people are sick and tired of being nickeled and dimed to death paying $10 here, and $15 there for a ton of streaming services with nothing good to watch on them. Having all of these essentially gives you an old school $100+ cable bill again. People are fed up and only subscribe to services that have something to offer.
At this point, I subscribe to Crunchyroll through Amazon Prime. It and Prime are all I have. Prime video comes with my Amazon Prime subscription (paid annually) and so I pay $7 a month for streaming services. I dropped all the rest because they have little to nothing to offer me.
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