California may be pro union, but Disney is definitely not pro union or even just labor friendly. They fought tooth and nail - all the way to the Supreme Court - to avoid paying their workers the locally mandated minimum wage. Luckily they lost.

Yeah, I didn’t hate her, I was mostly annoyed with the writers. They are clearly capable of writing complex characters and they had a capable actress. 

I don’t think Claire was a MPDM, but I do think she fell into the trap of “thankless love interest” or what I sometimes think of as “thankless Michelle Monaghan role” since she so often got stuck with it. Often seen as the dead wife/girlfriend in flashback, they are highly idealized with every interesting personality…

It’s common for things that are televised live, where the live captioning is still very mistake ridden. 

It’s baffling

Good point!

I’d say the Targaryens are the most boring part and dragons are the only thing that make them almost interesting. That’s why I gave the House of the Dragon a miss and was disappointed the other series with Naomi Watts wasn’t picked up. 

There’s an entire canyon of difference between criticizing Saltburn or disliking Jennifer Lopez for whatever reasons Edebiri had, and speaking up about the bigotry that Chapelle and Haley propagate. The former you can maybe file under poor professional discretion, the latter is advocating for civil rights.

Yeah, I pinged on that age difference right away. Especially when it’s not just one but two love interests that are older. That said, Johnson is 8 years older than Evan’s actual wife, so it probably doesn’t even register for him.

I found that wording confusing too. Basically, they froze her accounts because her Well Fargo financial advisor told them she wasn’t capable of managing them anymore. This link explains more

They limit sharing by limiting the number of simultaneous logins. That makes sense.

They were not misusing the stated intention of the account until the streaming service changed their terms. Netflix expressly said it was fine to use logins at different locations and with different users until they decided, no, it wasn’t OK. I directly contacted them to ask if it was OK and they said yes. So their…

If they do structure it like netflix it can still work, depending on how much time you spend at each location. For me, as long as I log in on my phone once a month at the chosen home wifi network, then I can still login on my roku at the remote location. 

There’s no “should” be prohibited. It not more sensible or moral to distinguish between two family members watching in two place in one house two places away from the house. It simply more profitable for streaming services to do so. 

It’s not completely sensible. In the past, logins were limited to the number of devices alone, which was a completely sensible way to do it. If I pay for 2 logins, it shouldn’t matter to the company where those logins are. In fact, in the early days, I contacted the providers and asked them whether location mattered…

These are all good points. 

Gotcha. The time gap is slightly less egregious with that contract stuff thrown in, plus covid, etc.

I thought the netflix contract specified they couldn’t do anything for four years or so?

It’s the company motto

Maybe the updated version can acknowledge how may native island species would be driven extinct by the project. Come to think of it, transplanting it to one those artificial islands in Dubai would be perfect and get around the whole “fucking up a pristine island ecosystem” problem.