Frank Pasquale
“Because there was no straightforward way to profit from their popular hits, streaming platforms chased buzz instead, programming for critics and Emmy voters. But as competition among apps accelerated, this strategy produced so many darkly serious, cinematically embellished shows that the bad ones crowded out the good ones and not even tastemakers had time to watch them all.”
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html
Jun 9, 2023 at 1:46pmWeb
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@FrankPasquale
what little passive consumption of entertainment I indulge is at our town's struggling indie movie house and the decaying flow of documentaries from youtube. I have only second hand opinions for the good old days of stuff like Seinfeld and The Sopranos. The darker and more cynical stuff that followed, I have never watched. Who has time for that? The streaming has been a search for income, not for artistic achievement. Turning mass audiences into a kind of landfill for "content".