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We’re just a few days away from the end of April, and with it comes the usual wave of titles leaving and arriving across streaming platforms. Among them is Netflix, which has released its “leaving soon” list, featuring several blockbuster franchises set to exit on the first day of May, with critically acclaimed favorites following throughout the month. A handful of lesser-known titles are also scheduled to leave the streamer, including this entertaining sci-fi thriller that, according to critics, almost had a chance of becoming a cult classic.
Incorporating elements of artificial intelligence and robotics, the film was released on September 13, 2024, to mixed reviews and poor box office returns, earning just $264,096 against a budget of around $5 million. However, that didn’t stop audiences from flocking to it once it eventually hit streaming platforms. Titled Subservience, the film is directed by S. K. Dale from a screenplay by **Will Honley **and April Maguire. Additionally, Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, Yariv Lerner, Les Weldon, and Tanner Mobley served as producers.
If you haven’t watched Subservience on Netflix yet, it will be removed from the streamer’s catalog on May 30, 2026, so you have only a month left. The 2024 film stars Megan Fox as Alice, a lifelike, artificially intelligent android capable of managing an entire household. Looking for help with housework, a struggling father (Michele Morrone) purchases Alice after his wife falls ill. However, Alice soon becomes self-aware and begins to desire everything her new family has to offer—starting with the affection of her owner—and she’ll kill to get it.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Based on 35 reviews—18 of which are negative—Subservience holds a 49% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. A few critics felt it brought little fresh perspective to** a genre already becoming increasingly crowded amid rapid AI advancements**. This sentiment is reflected in Screen Rant’s review, which acknowledges Fox’s strong performance but awards the film 2.5 out of 5 stars. Similarly, The Guardian noted that Subservience might have achieved cult classic status if it were “a little bit smarter and less predictable.” A more positive take from Decider describes it as “an efficient and entertaining” sci-fi thriller that’s worth watching, thanks in part to the “notorious personality at its center”—in this case, Fox’s Alice.
Subservience streams on Netflix until May.
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Will Honley, April Maguire