Atlantic.com contributor Alexis C. Madrigal deconstructs Netflix’s micro-genres in an article entitled: How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood.
With a little outside help he created The Atlantic’s Netflix-Genre Generator which is where I got the title of this post from. And it makes at least going to the link above and clicking a few times worth 30 secs of your mundane life. If you have 10 minutes you don’t need, read the whole article.