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Maniac is a prestige show.
I'm 4 episodes in and I still don't know what the show is about. It seems like its trying hard to channel some kind of weird, blade runner light vibes, but its doing a pretty bad job. Honestly if it didn't have some name brands in it (Jonah Hill and Emma Stone), I don't think it would getting the attention that it is.
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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…
The glacial pace of "Better Call Saul" springs to mind. I'm still sticking with it and it seems to be slowly starting to pick up (just in time for this season to end).
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I liked the story, the houmour and the characters. Can't wait for continuation.
Huh, I hated it partially for not being very funny and the characters being generally unlikable (and also just unbelievable in a weird way). It's cool how people can have so different opinions on it, are there any scenes in it you find particularly funny so I can pay close attention when I rewatch it?
I wish Netflix would force HBO Go and Amazon Prime Video into an UX war. It drives me crazy how bad the player and the general experience are on these 2 services. You can’t even pause with the space bar on HBO.
Amazon's search works so much better and feels less algorithmically personalized (something which I believe is a horrible anti-feature in all of these services). And because Amazon can support letting me buy or rent content that isn't stocked in the Prime Video service, the search results are _so_ much more useful to me. Often in Netflix, I just want to know _if_ they are carrying a certain title right now or not, and don't want to be presented with alternatives that are "similar in spirit" to whatever I was searching.
I also find that the "continue watching" section on Netflix frequently does not appear as the first row, and there are all sorts of "trending" or "critically acclaimed" rows that I have to scroll through to get back up to the "continue watching row" at the top. While on Amazon, this section is always at the top, and automatically updates with shows that have released a new episode since the last time I signed in.
Netflix already feels like an outdated brand to me, like it's the cheap way of doing a streaming platform. I get it that network-specific apps like NBCSN sports apps and HBO Go, etc., these probably will suck because it's a network that is probably utterly incompetent at investing in technology.
But Netflix really disappoints me. I think in the long run, Netflix will not be remembered as fondly as it is now, though we all benefit from the huge bidding war on talent creating great shows.
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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.
It would take longer to read his memo out loud than to watch the movie.
> “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…
Translation: Hollywood was underpaying producers relative to the value they generated. Netflix saw an opportunity and signed deals with producers more in line with the value they generated. Because of this competition, Hollywood is now paying producers more. Sounds like an unequivocal good thing for film and television. Talented producers get paid more. More money is being invested in films and shows. Obviously, film…