Netflix blog:

Whether you love books, music, films or TV, top 10 lists are a great way to find out what’s popular. So today we’re rolling out a new Top 10 feature on Netflix.

This new row – complete with its own special design – will enable you to see what is most popular on Netflix in your country. It will be updated every day and the position of the row will vary depending on how relevant the shows and films are to you.

Couple of things leap to mind here. First, there’s that headline. One Netflix row that’s been around a long, long time is called Popular on Netflix. So no, that headline is just plain wrong.

But that aside, this new top 10 list strikes me as yet another slice through Netflix that is more adding to the mess than useful. How about making all these rows optional so I can limit what shows up to the rows that I find useful.

And how about adding IMDb ratings (or your rating system of choice) to the mix? And maybe give me some sorting options so I can look at movies sorted by said ratings, perhaps with a subsort by year?

Lastly, it’ll be interesting when a top 10 list makes sense for Apple TV+.