These human TV and movie picks trounce Netflix’s algorithm

For all the energy that Netflix and other streaming services invest in guessing exactly what you’ll want to watch, they can be pretty bad at it. After all, how many evenings have you spent aimlessly clicking around on your Roku or Fire TV, eyes glazed as yet another algorithmically served autoplay trailer tries in vain to break through the din? As analysis paralysis sets in, you realize that your time spent deciding what to watch now limits what you actually have time to watch before you have to