Not really, given their primary market is people looking for *new* content, which they need to put ads on. The archive stuff is to encourage them to keep the service, a sweetener rather than an incentive. Keeping ads on this stuff too A. keeps the platform consistent and B. generates lots of income at little more cost.

Well, no, advertising exists to make the people airing the broadcasting money. Their justification is to make money. They're not spending $180 million on Seinfeld for the good of the human race. They want to make a profit. What's the problem with that?

If I had a time machine stopping HBO from ever being created would be my first priority. I'm totally serious.

I've seen both endings and I think they put forward that everything ends. But I'm a big fan of the aforementioned idea of it being literally noir itself destroying itself forever never to return.

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If you look at the leaked sony stuff Seinfeld was asking to be paid in ownership of Crackle which I find hilarious.

Mad Men is not an archival show.

Yeah that seems fair and I've had the inverse problem too (ads look crystal clear and show itself a stuttering mess). It's just the usual issues of bottlenecking every streaming service ends up with and due to Hulu's lack of popularity it doesn't happen nearly as often as any of the other major services.

This is crazy expensive though, by SVOD standards. It was so much that Netflix pulled out early.

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Yes, and my point is there's this ridiculous idea that just because you pay for something it can't have commecials. That's how television has worked for three-quarters-of-a-century. The service itself is great; I think it varies show-to-show but on Arrow and the Flash there's usually only one 15-30 second commercial…

Nah, the whole point of it is that everything comes to an end; the house, the world, noir, film, everything. It's the perfect symbolic end to the noir period because of it.

Hey, Netflix, Hulu called, and they're running out of you!

I hate this complaint. You get 45 seconds of commercials. Who cares if it's the same ads if you only have to see seven of them? Hulu (for some strange reason they've now ditched the name Hulu Plus and its just Hulu subscription or something) is great and it's ridiculous people have this arbitrary standard that…

It is the same briefcase from Kiss Me Deadly. The world ends at the end of every episode.

They just don't write 'em like Big Yellow Taxi anymore.

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No, it's not, stop it.

Really the only one I ever cared for, The Black and White Minstrel Show.

Don't even joke, or I'll need to write another op-ed for Deadline!