The Rise and Fall of Netflix

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"Arne's New Black" helped make the Netflix brand in a major way. Some of the cast members told me when they were cast on the show, people were like, oh, Netflix? You know, people really didn't know what this was going to be." "It kind of brought us back Natasha Lyon after years of drug problems on a kind of career slop," she says.

The actors are officially on strike. Vox senior correspondent and critic Alissa Wilkinson breaks down what SAG-AFTRA is afta, and the New Yorker’s Michael Schulman explains how one of Netflix’s first original shows was an early warning sign.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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