Netflix seems like a must-have again.

The streamer has a number of quality shows on, plus other competitors have dipped.

Netflix is a strange beast in so many ways. It was almost everybody’s first streamer, the game changer, the industry breaker.

But as the Streaming Wars heated up and countless new offerings came everyone’s way right about the time that cable cord-cutting was getting popular, well, it was a pretty messy revolution.

Somewhere in that period Netflix got too big (if you can imagine), too watered down on its quality, too ever-present and thus easy to take for granted. Maybe you were one of the people who dumped it, or maybe you’re now one of those people so sophisticated in their subscription juggling that you treat Netflix like any other streamer — subscribing to it only when it seems like it’s on a roll, like it seems absolutely necessary, shedding it when the offerings evoke boredom.

And honestly, with so much good content on so many streamers, if you took that approach you could hypothetically just never come back. It’s hard out there in the cordless TV Land jungle.

While I would argue that all streamers have peaks and valleys to their relevance, I started to know too many people who either subscribed to Netflix no matter what (guilty of that) or stopped subscribing because it has hard to figure out what was on and in the Peak TV Era there was alway something shiny somewhere else.

No matter where you fall on the spectrum — and it became a lot easier to not have the word “Netflix” on your lips as the number of streamers grew and people decided they couldn’t afford all of them much less have the time to watch their offerings — it’s probably time to give Netflix some props again.

It feels, more than ever, like it’s starting to be pretty great again.