All of a sudden I couldn’t stream any Netflix titles instantly so I called their support line. Found out they put my account on hold December 30th. During our conversation, the operator said I wasn’t being punished and that they were just trying to find a way to make the service work for me because it wasn’t working if so many of their discs were going missing. You think? Well, why if it is a physical disc issue does my complete account have to be suspended? And why did it have to be suspended over the New Year weekend? Even Time Warner wouldn’t do that. I acknowledge the fact that I live on what might be one of the worst USPS mail routes in the USA in a building full of people who might or might not be “borrowing” my Netflix discs and never returning them. But to put someone’s account on hold over a holiday weekend is not very nice at all.
Of course I can’t prove that I’m not building quite a tidy DVD collection at Netflix’s expense. But if you were looking at my account history you’d see that I have returned all of these TV shows:
- Mad Men:Season:2 (all discs),
- The Wire:Season 5 (all discs),
- Damages:Season 1 & 2 (all discs),
- Jackie Woodman: Season 1 & 2 (all discs),
- True Blood: Season 1 (all discs)
- Squidbillies: Volumes 1 & 2 (all discs)
Film:
- Frozen River,
- The White Ribbon,
- The Ghost Writer,
- Five Easy Pieces,
- The Secret in their Eyes,
- The Hangover,
- District 9,
- The Hurt Locker,
- Blindness,
- 28 Days Later,
- Black Book,
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Considering the fact that I gave all of these movies and shows at least a 4 star rating – why would I then keep a bad movie like Expired when I could have kept 28 Days Later, one of my all time favorite movies?
Even though I know it probably wasn’t a person with the power of logic in charge of putting my account on hold and that more likely a computer somewhere keeping track of my missing discs triggered the decision, I am still very much put out.
Normally I would try to spare my 4 subscribers from having to read this sort of of thing but Netflix doesn’t have a contactable email address and so now you have to know what happened,too.
The remake of Day of the Dead starring Mena Suvari and Vingh Rhames didn’t impress me.Watching the movie you could tell that all they we thinking about was “Let’s turbocharge those zombies”.Failing yet again to grasp what is so effective about authentic zombies in the first place: they’re slow,yeah, but they add up fast and soon you are overwhelmed and cornered.Then they git you.
I’ve tried watching this show on Sundance but it’s just too hard to follow a show that seems to air at 3am. So NetFlix to the rescue.I was disappointed that disc one contains only 4 episodes but it was great to see how the whole Fiona and Steve thing got going.