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Seriously: I left for a family thing and I could search for comedies or dramas or sci-fi, etc. and refine by a wealth of subgenres like standup or sports movies or space adventures.

I come back a few days later to categories like "cerebral," "fun & laughs" and "steamy" with the only subgenres across all boards being "movie" and "tv show."

It's verging on worthless, and I didn't realize I cared so much about it.

That's really strange - mine is still working the default way.

My subgenres are still working. Is it a region thing? I live on the west coast in the states.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/netflix-starts-blocking-vpns-proxies-and-other-unblocking-services/

Is it this?

Nope. Not a problem with access, just ghastly organization.

Now I'm starting to get paranoid that I'm the only one seeing this:

and this:

Maybe my region is the tester for a new rollout? Any other midwesterners dealing with the same bullshit categories and subgenres?

As someone from Oklahoma, mine looks normal.

I want to know what the "absurd" movies are.

If you hit the subgenres, it becomes "absurd & Irreverent," and under movies there is a metric ton of standup comedy peppered here and there with a few movies like Hot Fuzz, The Interview, The Cobbler and - I suspect curiously - Django Unchained.

If you don't pick a subgenre, there are still a bunch of standup specials, a sprinkling of movies and a bunch of shows like Family Guy, Nurse Jackie, Futurama, Orange is The New Black, The Office and That 70s Show.

Just hitting absurd TV also gets you Buffy, Bones, Grace and Frankie, and other shows that may or may not actually be absurd or irreverent.

Go to your options, see if flicking "Test Participation" sorts you back to normal.

You have solved the mystery! Except, now I can't decide if I want to change it or keep it so I can continue complaining about it on Twitter. Because it'd be nice for Netflix to get the message about its worthlessness before it becomes the new thing.

I think that would be an interesting sorting for subgenre drop-down menus, but not for the main browsing menu. Hope they get enough negative feedback to not roll it out. :|

Or maybe have an option to have the current sorting OR this new sorting. I could see being useful for a person who's in a particular mood for something like that, but it'd be pretty worthless for me.

Those categories are a slim-downed version of what the subgenres used to be for me. Netflix was like, oh, you want comedies! May interest you in this collection of standup? How about slapstick? Raunchy comedis, maybe?" "Dramas you say? How about something cerebral? Would you like slasher horror, suspenseful horror? The world is your neatly organized oyster!"

I've tweeted Netflix directly about it, will probably do a blog that is mostly a rehash of these threads, and then I'm totally switching back.

This may be why. http://netflixcodes.me/

Somebody found out the codes Netflix uses for super specific stuff and made a website for people to find them.

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