Netflix’s hints are one of the few things that still make us hope that the time when we’ll be taken over by machines isn’t so soon. The platform algorithm transmission it calculates the user’s profile with the precision and finesse of a backhoe and often suggests titles similar to the ones the user likes to watch, that is, pre-recorded moving images with a limited duration.
This week, however, happened what inevitably happens when you shoot in all directions: there comes a time when you end up hitting something. And among other equally mediocre proposals, was “A trip to infinity.”
“A Journey to Infinity” is one of those exemplary cases of a certain kind of Netflix aesthetic; if the BBC had/has documentaries with (let’s say in chorus) “the BBC quality seal”, Netflix has this line of science served in envelopes (of which perhaps the best example is the series “Summarize”). In that tab, like those boxes of old CDs they sell at gas stations, you can find everything, even good stuff. And when we’re sick of drunkenness, but already too inexperienced to expose ourselves to the predictable reality-too-real of the old linear television, it is worth wandering and opening a title little more than random. At worst, you can learn anything.
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Source: Observadora
