Netflix recommendations

Netflix recommendations that suit you.

Open Netflix in the evening and you see row after row of suggestions. Which of them suits you tonight, the rows don’t say. A few questions to yourself and a look beyond that one service make the choice shorter.

What suggestions in a streaming app show

The suggestions in a streaming app come from that service’s catalogue. If you have several subscriptions, each app shows you only part of the picture. A movie that streams on another service and would suit you better doesn’t appear there. On top of that, each app only knows the titles you watched there.

How to narrow it down

Think of two or three titles that gripped you recently and one you gave up on. What did the good ones have in common, and what bothered you about the one you dropped? Decide beforehand whether you want a film or a series and how much time you have. If you want a 30-minute episode, a three-hour movie is no help.

Reasons save the scrolling

Thumbnails and short blurbs tell you little about whether a title suits you. One sentence explaining why it fits your taste saves clicking through trailers. If the reason is wrong, you notice at once and can move on.

A “no” sharpens the picks

When you turn a suggestion down, good recommendations learn from it. A title that doesn’t grab you, one you have seen and didn’t like, and one that just doesn’t fit right now are three different statements. Telling them apart gets you more accurate picks next time.

All your services in one selection

If a matching title doesn’t stream on Netflix, it is still a good recommendation. A useful selection shows your services first and marks titles on other services. That way you see at a glance what you can watch tonight without a new subscription.

How Tastemo does it

In Tastemo you pick your services, for example Netflix and others. Titles on them come first; we mark the others. With the filter “Only mine” you see only your services, with “All” the rest as well. To watch, you switch to the service’s own app.

You rate titles you know, and Mo, the AI companion in Tastemo, writes for each pick why it suits you, with your consent. If you turn one down, one tap says whether it doesn’t sound like you, you have seen it and it wasn’t your thing, or it just isn’t right now. Mo learns from every rating, even from a no. How this works for movies is described under movie recommendations.

The AI works in the background and only with your consent. Picks from the existing catalogue are free; new research is limited on the free plan.

Netflix is a trademark of Netflix, Inc.; Tastemo is independent.