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Thank God, I was so worried the tech and media capitalists weren’t making sufficient progress in monopolization. This is a huge relief!
So HBO is just never making a quality show ever again huh
That’s just obviously not true tho is it
HBO and its shows are not just all bad, they have had a significant harmful effect on TV as a whole by popularizing “prestige” TV.
They will every once in a while, but it’ll be cancelled after 1 season for not meeting their bloated expectations of every show doing Sopranos numbers.
HBOLQ
this is going to absolutely suck for consoomers and the culture at large but hear me out for a second
batman and bugs bunny fighting white walkers and squid game goons in the upside down
consoomers tired of IP? let’s do a crossover!
just jam 'em all together like a nonsensical mashup t-shirt
it would work at least once
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
MY MOVIE THEATERS
TOM CRUISE I NEED YOU, TOM CRUISE THE PEOPLE NEED YOU, TOM CRUISE I WILL BECOME A SCIENTOLOGIST IF YOU KILL DAVID ZASLAV
lol i dropped netflix years ago. then i dropped Hulu, then i dropped prime. hbo was the last one standing, and i resolved to drop it with the last price increase but im kinda wanting to see where Welcome to Derry is going first. its my last streamer, and the back catalogue is pretty sharp, so im not aggressively disastisfied yet.
but if this merger happens, i will be unironically very happy to cancel netflix a second time and write something super snippy in the comment box.
its insane to me how mergers work. netflix fucking sucks. their price hikes coupled with quiet catalogue deletion and the absolute shit tier quality of their studios enshittified them so fast, they have clearly begun a mortality spiral.
so obviously, because the logic of capitalism is supreme, they can draw on dubious valuation and leverage crazy credit to make a hail mary pass at buying out a much more established, older competitor to reset their terminal decline and saddle the new entity with so much debt, the enshittification will start again at warp speed.
for you cultural archivists out there, get as much of HBOs back catalogue as you can, because you know that shit will vanish off the platform once netflix takes over and begins their stealth content pruning.
OK so I just downloaded Welcome to Derry S1E1 because (a) you kinda recommended it and (b) I thought it would be some Irish shit, maybe some Peaky-Blinders-esque violence at some point but maybe just about a new family moving in and adjusting. I even saw the original IT a few weeks ago but had apparently completely forgotten about the town name.
Anyway, the internet here isn’t fast enough to download something else tonight so back to getting the daylights scared out of me.
just to warn you, the first episode is the weakest imo. it has some really gross/vioent scenes and its before introducing any of the things i became curious about. like i almost decided against eatching any more but i was bored a few weeks later and decided to give it another shot.
its definitely more interesting starting with ep2.
Highway to the danger zone
Gonna take it right into the danger zone
Highway to the danger zone
Ride into the danger zone
Some lib on tiktok was telling how this is a good thing because paramount is pro ai and fascist, like netflix wont do the same if they see money
Ai brainworms arent limited to pro-ai ppl, it turns out
I’m so glad I don’t watch TV anymore.
Considering how WB has been, I really don’t have an opinion here.
Same, i don’t know how they can get much worse atp, but I’m used to being surprised in that department.
Honestly the lesser evil compared to Zaslov
At least maybe some good canceled adult swim shows will come back (they won’t but I will continue to cope)
The replies on that
tweet are abysmal. Is all of Twitter just that now?It is bad, but people persist there despite the horrors.
free cashflow of 9 billion, what are you doing capitalist nemesii?
Didn’t they just announce the date for Euphoria Season 3? There’s no way the SEC lets a company with a trans person in a sympathetic role have a merger!
Ancaps in the replies asking for someone to put the noose in their hands around their neck
I was worried Paramount/Skydance would buy it up as I saw that as worse given how they’re most interested in making nakedly fascist slop compared to even the rest of the American competition and anything that punts Zaslav out of power is a good thing for media overall I think. This does give Netflix a much needed DEEP IP catalog of both existing shows/movies they can stream as well as IP universes they can make content for. One of their bigger problems competing with HBO, Disney, and the networks was they all had vaults of content they could slop out to nostalgic consumers (I’m guilty of that too) at very little cost and they could do reboots and sequels and so on while Netflix was stuck building from the ground up.
But who knows maybe they’ll mismanage it and go down in flames. Should be interesting at least and maybe they’ll give us a few quality pieces of content before they get bored trying to prove they’re alright to the audience and industry and go back to turning the screws on everything to squeeze max profit out of it.
