Netflix Recommends

I enjoy watching movies and tv shows on Netflix. But I have a complaint – though a slight one.

Netflix recommends other movies and tv shows for you to watch based on your viewing habits. Makes sense and sounds like a good idea. The problem is that Netflix often ends up recommending something I’ve already watched on Netflix.

It’s like ‘Hey, you enjoyed that show Jessica Jones… you should check out this other show called Luke Cage’. Great except I just finished watching that a couple of weeks ago. If the show had been watched somewhere other than Netflix that would be one thing but it wasn’t.

How hard is it to filter recommendations against shows and movies I’ve already watched on the service? Surely it shouldn’t be very difficult.