Netflix’s lowest moment.
Doubling the price of the service and losing a million customers in the process? Splitting the service into two different companies and further alienating everyone?
That’s nothing. Netflix’s lowest moment as a company was on September 1st, 2010. On that date we were promised a streaming version of the previously unreleased Fish Story, Yoshihiro Nakamura’s stunning punk rock opus. The Netflix Instant listing had all the credits and even right the cover art, but when people tried firing it up they found themselves watching a 53 minute PBS documentary called Fish Story.
Many tears were shed, many wives punched in anger. The Western World mourned.
Today, however, is a bright and shining day. Fish Story is finally up on the service and you can finally see the movie I’ve been gushing about for two years (here and here) since it played the New York Asian Film Fest, an absolutely perfect film that deserves to be seen by everyone.
Now, if they can get Castaway on the Moon on the service, I’ll be set…
