first time in a long long time. Perhaps it will improve quality.
Yay netflix!
Netflix Is Forcing Hollywood into a Talent War
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#22> “The increased volume at other places has worked in our favor,” says Casey Bloys, the head of programming at HBO. I do hope this is the case but I'm not convinced. Netflix's approach atm seems very strongly geared towards the middlebrow, which is perhaps the area their algorithms perform best. It's probably not very economical for them to target someone like me when there's still droves of people watching network T…
Maniac is a prestige show.
I know it's a divisive show (I didn't like it), but considering the names involved (Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Cary Fukunaga), it seems to drag them down more than be elevated by them.
Having Emma Stone in a TV series should feel like a much bigger deal than that show does.
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Netflix's classic movies selection is pretty terrible though, isn't it? I know I checked a couple of months back on the UK library for some noirs and I can't remember exactly but I think there may have only been 1 (Touch of Evil iirc)
US content is much deeper than UK, most likely due to (a) operating for longer in that market and (b) better economics for going hunting for licencing rights for not-even-that-long long-tail content. In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's an eye-opening post from someone at the British Film Institite, explaining the rediculous lengths they had to go to just to do a screening of Kathryn Bigelow's "Point Break" https://…
Neat article, thanks!
RE: Netflix US, if this site is accurate the US is actually worse than the UK for films from the 1950s https://unogs.com/?q=-!1950,1962-!0,5-!0,10-!0,10-!Any-!Any-...
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It's a great thing for the real creative leader types. I've wondered if this would happen in software. Of course we are amazingly well off by the standards of most fields. I still feel based on the value we give companies that there is room for compensation to greatly increase. In the movie and tv biz, I think everything is basically unionized for regular crew and actors, so they have basic decent pay. Is there any d…
Producers aren't really regular crew anymore than headline actors are regular cast, even if both pay union dues.
Depends on whether or not they are above/below the line
https://www.quora.com/What-does-above-below-the-line-mean-in...
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#25Most of these shows are junk. If you don't like comic books or dark murder based series you're not too happy with Netflix these days. It's going to be one big ABC now. What do you expect when you hire one person to churn out seven shows at once? Where's the creative risk taking? Shonda Rhimes? Ugh.
It’s funny, before the ads annoyed me. But now I’m wary of investing time into any shows because I’m afraid of all the extra time they waste with filler content like unnecessary drama or actors looking at each other’s faces, presumably to make it feel like you’re getting more minutes of content for your money. But I feel like it’s wasting my time. At least I have the option of fast forward, though more likely I’ll ju…
At least Netflix releases a season at a time. On Broadcast tv, filler episodes were really upsetting when you had to wait a week or more. (even worse in foreign countries that took time to realise US series moved to multiple episode story arc, meaning often you get mix and match season in a single year run)
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It's a great thing for the real creative leader types. I've wondered if this would happen in software. Of course we are amazingly well off by the standards of most fields. I still feel based on the value we give companies that there is room for compensation to greatly increase. In the movie and tv biz, I think everything is basically unionized for regular crew and actors, so they have basic decent pay. Is there any d…
With the low interest rates cheap capital is accessible to selected companies. The cheap capital is used to acquire monopoly position instead of just competing for talent. I don't think the biggest problem is that software engineers are under-compensated. It's more like assets are overpriced, so we're not able to buy houses.
I live in a 2000 sq ft house that cost less than my annual salary. Both Texas and North Carolina come to mind as areas that have pretty good opportunities for tech and very low housing costs.
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It's a great thing for the real creative leader types. I've wondered if this would happen in software. Of course we are amazingly well off by the standards of most fields. I still feel based on the value we give companies that there is room for compensation to greatly increase. In the movie and tv biz, I think everything is basically unionized for regular crew and actors, so they have basic decent pay. Is there any d…
With the low interest rates cheap capital is accessible to selected companies. The cheap capital is used to acquire monopoly position instead of just competing for talent. I don't think the biggest problem is that software engineers are under-compensated. It's more like assets are overpriced, so we're not able to buy houses.
If you get out of your bubble, assets are very much not overpriced. If remote work wasn't such a dirty word, one could live in places where nice houses sell for under 100k and taxes are negligible.
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Because of this, I have stopped watching new series on Netflix, and instead use it to re-watch older classic movies and series. YMMV on if it's worth as much but it's enough for me, at least for now.
Netflix's classic movies selection is pretty terrible though, isn't it? I know I checked a couple of months back on the UK library for some noirs and I can't remember exactly but I think there may have only been 1 (Touch of Evil iirc)
Streaming yes. So get a DVD subscription. Though, sadly, they’re allowing their back catalog to degrade significantly.