PCWorld – August 2019

118 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

HERE’S HOW FIND THE PERFECT SHOW ON NETFLIX

code (or, even easier, just right-click the code

on the webpage) to jump to any number of

laser-focused Netflix categories, from “Comic

book and superhero movies” and “Film noir” to

“Deep sea horror movies” (seriously) and

“Food & travel shows.” It’s a great way to

uncover some of Netflix’s hidden gems.

FILTER BY YEAR OR RATING

The vast majority of shows and movies that

appear on the Netflix homepage hail from the

past five years or so. If you want to see some-

thing from the 1990s or earlier, you’ll need to

dig. And while you can sort Netflix’s listings

by year from the desktop Netflix interface

(click TV Shows or Movies, click the grid icon

in the upper-right corner, and then select Year

Released from the drop-down), you’ll need to

scroll and scroll to get past the 2010s—and

no, you can’t reverse sort by year.

Enter InstantWatcher.com, a site that lets

you filter Netflix videos by year or rating.

Click Search from the InstantWatcher home-

page, and then use the sliders to filter TV

shows and movies by the year they were

released (a bar chart reveals in dramatic

fashion how heavily Netflix videos are

weighted toward recent releases), their

In the mood for a western? Netflix-Codes.com makes it easy to browse Netflix’s impressive collection of

niche categories.