Anybody can recommend Netflix? If we sign up in Switzerland, do we get to see content in English / subtitled?
Thanks!

Yes & yes. Why don't you try the trial month?

Netflix content varies from country to country. 99% of Swiss Netflix is in original English - mainly US.

If you can sign up in another country you will save on the high Swiss subscription rate. Search Netflix on here for more info...

As AbFab noted, the content does vary from country to country. Programs like Peep Show for example pop up when I'm in the UK but disappear from the Netflix library when I return home to Switzerland.

I thought downloading them to my iPad whilst in the UK would allow me to watch them here but it doesn't work. As soon as you try and play them you get an error message to say its not licensed in this country (unless of course you keep your iPad in flight mode so it doesn't know where it is )

Yes, I discovered this when I downloaded a couple of films for flights to and from the UK. I was 3/4 way through the first one and I thought I'd watch the rest going back. I was unavailable until I was back in Switzerland. Now I use flight/airplane mode to preserve downloaded content...

Interesting, I've been trying to find out what Netflix CH offers but can't find a list.

Based on your experience Castro & Abfab, it seems like you can subscribe to Netflix in any country but the accessible content is determined by which country Netflix thinks you are in at the time?

e.g. if I had a US subscription but accessed Netflix in CH, I just see CH content. Or if I had a CH subscription but was physically or "virtually" traveling to the US, I could see US content...

Correct. I've used it in several countries and always get respective local content based on my Swiss subscription.

It used to be possible to access US Netflix via VPN even if in Switzerland. It seems to have been blocked a while ago or at least I would yet to have to find a provider that still works.

What Netflix offers in Switzerland is okay, but obviously nowhere near as extensive as in the US. It's slooowly getting better though.

This is exactly what happened to me, Peep Show!.

I was enjoying watching 'The Americans' on Netflix on my Kindle when in Zurich and looked forward to watching the rest of the series on my return to London but not only is it not available here in London but there is no record of my ever having watched it. I thought I was going mad or must have dreamt it all until I read the above post.

I'm on my 2nd go of Netflix. I gave up on the 1st go when I couldn't get the latest House of Cards Series (A Netflix series!) months after it was released!

I'm actually really enjoying it on my 2nd go for the following reasons:

There is a lot of really great Netflix produced content, both movies, series and documentaries. (Dirty Money, which is a fantastic documentary series. Birdbox, Icarus, another fascinating documentary. Sour Grapes, probably the best wine documentary I have seen. Actually we should start a Netflix recommendation thread!)

The platform is much improved and finding stuff, plus the recommendations, based on your usage is pretty great.

There is still a lot of stuff not on there, but for my needs and based on the cost (I think I pay CHF16/month for the middle subscription) it's perfect.

You can also cancel anytime, so not much risk.

Amma tad dissapointed with Netflix, I humbly admit that I got it to watch Startrek Discovery (which was briliant in my opinion) but apart from one or two other mildly interesting series and movies, I can´t say that it moves my world.
Most series that I was following via some of the Internets more flexible websites... (don´t Judge, we have all been there) on Malta are not available or only one or two Seasons.
The Orville... Not going to happen.
GOT... ditto
Vikings... yawn.
Das Boot, the new one.. nope!
Got a load of Content, some intresting documentaries mind you, but I am watching in Germany so it´s mainly shallow and politically correct US and UK crap. I´d rather watch cat-videos on YouTube.
Some of the Korean stuff is interesting for one or two episodes but then they start to get silly. The same with some Chinese Content. Wandering Earth was a great promise but it was painfull to watch to the bitter end.

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Back in Bavaria, god´s own belly button.

Literally all the shows you’ve just mentioned are in Sky.

I know, that is what is annoyning me, I urinated up the wrong tree.

I find "Netflix Original" content extremely unpredictable. Umbrella Academy, Titans, and Stranger Things, for example, are excellent shows, whereas some stuff I've been "recommended" are utter dross (The Order, Santa Clarita Diet anyone?).

We watch mainly Netflix nowadays. I find most of the original content rather gratuitously rude/sexual/violent for my taste, though Black Earth Rising was very good (shown on the BBC first), as was A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Content has definitely improved tremendously over the last couple of years. As has the share price.

So far we've not run out of things to watch.

As far as I know, streaming from sites like https://www.moviesjoy.net/ is not illegal in CH

Netflix is producing/buying enormous amounts of content, and it shows. They have some great shows, but if you look at the whole list one can only conclude that a lot is simply cheap rubbish.

Also I find that a lot of the documentary's start of great, but after 1 or 2 episodes already have become rubbish. "One strange rock" for example, and who on earth thought it be a good idea to have Will Smith and his dumb jokes host such documentary.

Looks good, but it would seem that here in D it is pretty much Verboten

Pulled out from among the NETFLIX dross:

Ricky Gervais - After Life series
Ricky Gervais - Special Correspondents - film
Michael Douglas - The Kominsky Method - series
Always worth watching again and again - The IT Crowd - series

1, tried it got bored with it.
2. same here
facit: Don´t like Ricky Gervais
3. will take a look.
4. I live the IT crowd, don´t have to watch it.