“Resetting” Netflix

I grew tired of Netflix always offering the same movies and shows over and over, so I tried clearing my viewing history thinking that would give me a clean slate. It didn’t. It still had all my ratings in my profile and kept offering the same shows as before.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love my documentaries about serial killers and cults, but Netflix almost never offered me any new ones. I thought, maybe I should broaden my viewing habits before I start wishing someone would start serial killing so I have something new to watch on television.

The next thing I tried for “resetting” Netflix was to create another profile on my account called “Mark New.” That seemed to work, and I liked the first two things I picked from the new offerings. Both were German horror—one limited series, one movie—briefly described below.

Cassandra

Limited Series
Genre: Sci-fi Horror

A family moves to the country to start anew after a family tragedy in their apartment in the city. The house they buy is cheap and mostly forgotten by the people in town, but the new family finds it has an early, experimental smart home system and turns it on.

Moral of the story: Don’t upload the consciousness of a crazy woman as the basis for your smart home system.

Blood Red Sky

Feature Film
Genre: Horror / Action

Hijackers hatch a plot to take hostages for money, but pin it on two Muslim passengers. I’m not exactly sure how that was going to work out, but I don’t really care. I think it was just a MacGuffin—a device to start the plot moving, but was really unimportant to the movie overall. Needless to say, things didn’t go as planned.

Moral of the story: Don’t hijack a plane with a vampire on board.