5 atrocities leaving Netflix in March 2019
Netflix giveth and Netflix taketh. Even though considerably more content is added to Netflix, there are several atrocities that leave the streaming giant every month.
Not everyone will agree with everything on the following list. Some may, in fact, enjoy some of the shows many deem atrocious. To each their own; the pineapple pizza debate rages on.
Usually, something on Netflix deserves to leave because it’s overstayed it’s welcome. Like someone on My 600-lb Life at a buffet. There are a few others, however, that just need to leave because they’re horrible.
Enough is enough
Are there seriously 18 years of this show? Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Eighteenth Year should have never made it this long. Rumor has it that current and future episodes were created by recycling the scripts from episodes in the first two or three seasons and changing a few details.
Joey from Chicago beat up a disabled kid? Now it’s Jussie from Chicago and a fake hate crime. There is just no originality anymore. Speaking of zero originality…
Who are you NOT gonna call?
More from Netflix
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- The Crown and more Netflix shows and movies to stream this week (November 13)
- Escaping Twin Flames and more harrowing love-centered documentaries to watch on Netflix
Ghostbusters 2, that’s who. Much like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, one was enough. A slime river, possessed painting, and a New Year’s rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” lacked the innovative creativity and gaiety of the original. It felt like everything was covered in the slime residue leftover from the first film. As Michael Bay well knows, special effects do not alone make a movie. Trust me, the only reason you remember it fondly is nostalgia.
Speaking of Ghostbusters, please Netflix, please, save us all the face of disgust and keep the 2016 version excluded forever. And while we’re at it…
The cartoons are atrocious
Were there really five seasons of The Real Ghostbusters, because that’s how many Netflix is taking off the availability list. I’m hoping there are only three seasons, and Netflix is holding down the shift button and hard deleting two of the seasons. Either way, Seasons 1-5 of this abortion are gone in March.
Sorry, they’re not funny
Has it really been 10 years since people started the whole “the women on Saturday Night Live are just as funny as the men”-thing? Apparently, it actually has been 10 years, because Baby Mama premiered in 2008 to dozens of laughs nationwide.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler attempted to carry a movie and failed miserably. It’s clumsy advertising at best, and basically a female equivalent to A Night at the Roxbury. People just don’t want to say it because they’re afraid of being labeled or ostracized.
The real problem is, they’re not funny. Oh, you’re upset? Or as the kids say, you’re “big mad” right now?
This was really a show?
The Drop Dead Diva description from Rotten Tomatoes: “A vapid model who met an untimely death returns to the living in the body of a plus-size attorney.” Wait, so someone thought it would be a good idea to breed Shallow Hal, Freaky Friday, and Margaret Cho then turn it into a television series? There’s a good reason it was turned down and relegated to Lifetime.
Next. The 5 biggest atrocities that left Netflix in Feb. 2019. dark
“Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, don’t even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent,” thank you for helping Netflix come to the conclusion to flush the aforementioned turds.