The new entertainment industry will be even more woke.
Peak TV, a stunning era during which Big Tech and traditional studios entered into a furious competition to make a bewildering amount of content, is dead. The 559 scripted shows from last year represent a historic hubris that everyone, especially investors, is recovering from.
That was the year that Netflix announced that it was spending $18 billion on content.
The creative elites are completely out of touch with ordinary people.
It’s slightly disconcerting when you make a decision that you think goes against the grain of the generality, and then you find out everybody else is doing exactly the same thing. When I cancelled my Netflix subscription earlier this year I thought I was being thrillingly unconventional. But only a few days later, the news broke that I was definitely not alone. Maybe we were all sat there, millions of us it transpires, sighing as we scrolled sideways along those seemingly endless menu cards – each one representing somebody’s creative dream, each one utterly generic – all of us thinking: ‘This may be popular with the rude masses, but none of it appeals to my highly refined taste!’
I do subscribe to Netflix and also to Amazon Prime.
Through the worst of last year there were many long nights that I sat numb in front of the TV binge watching whatever looked like it might promise escape.
My sleep was badly disrupted and whenever I did awake I would tune back in for the “company” if the automated shut off had kicked in.
I discovered Netflix has some good content and I have been impressed with a lot of the Euro series, DARK, Money Heist, Babylon Berlin, Norsemen – who knew Swedes could be funny?
Now I fall asleep having failed to find anything that looks bingeable. I literally wake up with the clicker in hand having watched nothing.
On occasion I have tuned in a show only to remember that I did in fact sorta watch it through the longest hours of last year but it somehow left no impression.
My tastes in flicks are not as refined as Kathy’s and I miss watching her recommendations together. Even her taste in “Junk” was more sophisticated than mine.
I suspect I will cancel Netflix. Prime and “free” Tubi offer enough to fall asleep by and the budget says one has to go.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade it wasn’t just lefty reporters who became apoplectic, the Hollywood elite were enraged too. Actors immediately flew to Twitter to unleash their (in some cases) profanity-laced attacks on the conservative Justices.
Of course, the late night talk show hosts also lectured their viewers. Pop singers like Olivia Rodrigo and sports figures like Megan Rapinoe also got into the act.
Hollywood went all in for Joe Biden in 2020. And now they are paying the price, literally, as the cost of movie and TV production soars to levels that are giving entertainment executives sticker shock.
Netflix Is a Joke is the name of a Netflix comedy festival that was held in Los Angeles from April 28 to May 8. It’s a curious title, because in comedy circles Netflix is indeed a joke — a streaming service that you’d think would be eager to snap up the very best comics around, but that instead, with a couple of famous exceptions (Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais), prefers to present stand-ups whose material ranges from the safely banal to the aggressively PC — Jim Gaffigan, Aziz Ansari, Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt, Hannah Gadsby, Amy Schumer. Among the festival’s offerings is an hour-and-a-half special entitled Bill Burr Presents Friends Who Kill. “Kill,” of course, is used here in the same way that it’s used among comics — to convey the fact that some fellow comedian’s material is so strong that it makes the audiences weep with helpless laughter and sends the competition running for the hills. As it turned out, alas, the “friends” on this show were more likely to make an audience die of boredom.
Hollywood celebrities were inconsolable Friday following the announcement of the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated ruling on abortion. The Left-wing stars expressed their expletive-filled outrage and fury, directing their anger at the high court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Hollywood celebrities are freaking out over the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on New York’s proper cause requirement for concealed carry permits, ruling that the state’s law is unconstitutional.
Stars including Julianne Moore, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, George Takei, and Albert Brooks erupted in fury at the high court following Thursday’s announcement.
When I was growing up, I distinctly remember my mother telling me that two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because my friends managed to get an “A” in chemistry because they cheated on the test didn’t make it right for me to do the same. Cheating is still cheating. Likewise, just because someone was mean to me because I was Jewish did not make it appropriate for me to be mean to that person because he was not Jewish. But in today’s Hollywood, when it comes to hiring, the new mantra is that active racial discrimination is the only way to go.
Aren’t box office analysts supposed to, you know, analyze the box office? That’s their job, correct, to look at the box office performance of any given title and lay out the reasons for that performance or the lack thereof?
Well, we don’t have box office analysts anymore.
We have Woke Pravda
Lightyear, the latest piece of child grooming media from the predators at the Walt Disney Co., is looking like a box office catastrophe, which is only a surprise to those who don’t live in the real world.
Gee, what do you think will happen when you add some high-profile homosexuality to a kiddie movie?
Hollywood celebrities hyperventilated all over Twitter and poured praise on Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Thursday in response to the January 6 committee hearing about the riot on Capitol Hill.
Thirty-six years after flying high in the 1980s original, Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the adventure-thriller film in which Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer fight baddies for the US Navy, is breaking box office records in America.
Besides spectacular dogfights with fighter jets, it is getting praise for another reason. When a trailer for the film was released in 2019, Taiwanese and Japanese flags were removed from Cruise’s bomber jacket – appeasing Beijing (which claims Taiwan and disapproves of Japan) but upsetting Americans.
But when Paramount released the film late last month, it had reinstated the flags. Americans and Taiwanese cheered. Some critics claimed this was evidence Hollywood was finally standing up to China.
With a domestic take nearing $300 million after only ten days in release, Top Gun: Maverick continues to prove the obvious: moviegoers of all ages will show up in droves if you entertain and inspire us.
Never a huge Cruise fan but I’m glad to see the movie is highlighting the childish petulance of the left.
Hollywood is wallowing in angst, and at least half of America couldn’t be happier.
It started with the release of Top Gun: Maverick. The film was a stunning success and was devoid of the typical wokeness that has slithered into just about everything they have created in recent years. None of Hollywood’s usual box-checking to fill the woke agenda was present. Worse yet, it is a pro-American movie, filled mostly with males doing military stuff.
There were no winners in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard verdict
The trial that captured the attention of the country — or at least a handful of TikTokers — came to an end yesterday.
A Virginia jury found that actress Amber Heard defamed her ex-husband Johnny Depp and vice versa. While both parties were held to be liable, Depp was awarded $15 million in damages whereas Heard was only awarded $2 million.
It was a major defeat for Heard who expressed her disappointment in a statement shortly after the verdict was read.
