Basic plan subscriptions are now $6.50 more expensive. And quite frankly, I am far from impressed.

I pay less for Disney+ and get UHD and 4k films, saving on the long run by pre-paying for a year’s subscription. And I can easily just get a gift card, preferably with bonus loyalty points, and binge watch whole seasons of whatever Netflix Canada has to offer in less than three months, so where’s the incentive to have a long term subscription?

Amazon Prime may be offering older films on their Prime Video service but it only costs $2.99/month to go add free so Netflix Canada will need to step up their game for me to consider resubscribing to any of their services for more than three months.

I’d rather just buy film downloads or blu-rays than to just throw money at Netflix Canada hoping they’ll add something I like. And Stranger Things is heading into their last season so what could there possibly be on there that I couldn’t binge watch in a short amount of time?

I am keeping a watch of the “Best of Netflix” articles and reviews but nothing really stick out for me anymore, making me wonder if the streaming service is past its prime.

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