Why is Netflix So Bad at Creating Sci-Fi Programming?

I love science fiction.

Movies, tv, books, you name it I’m into it. I like good sci-fi. I like bad sci-fi. I’m a person who will watch a movie like SyFy’s Sharktopus (2010) and not only enjoy it but laugh loudly at its utter ridiculousness.

So it pains me to say, while I appreciate Netflix’s commitment to making sci-fi programming, they are horrendously bad at it. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why Netflix, with all the money at its disposal, can’t make good or even so-bad-it’s-good sci-fi tv shows and movies.

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It is one thing to be bad. Bad programming can still be entertaining; the aforementioned Sharktopus is an example of that. But Netflix can’t even get that right. Netflix commits the cardinal sin of creating sci-fi content, something worse than being bad — being boring.

Let’s take a look at Netflix’s shiny big-budget original Altered Carbon. Now, this type of show is right up my ally, original sci-fi content with a compelling story and world-building. If you don’t know what Altered Carbon is about here…