Settling on a Netflix original film for their movie night, a local couple was treated to one and a half hours of watching a C-list actor and some CGI. “Oh, I think that guy was in a few episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” said Louise Bell, as she and her boyfriend watched the vaguely recognizable actor get chased by a ghost in some sort of Nordic forest. “I guess the premise is okay but the movie kind of looks like a video game. Even some of the human characters don’t look like real people. Oh wait, wasn’t that woman in Smallville?” At press time, a Netflix original series was just five D-list actors and a horse.

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