Every financial website I use has some kind of two-factor authentication and would laugh at you for entering a short string of sequential numbers as your password. Most of them will lock you out after 3-5 failed log-in attempts.  Like I’m sure there are people TRYING to set their password to “password,” but only the…

According to the article, they’re on pace to make their money back in 33 years.

But Sony’s also apparently on an aggressive acquisition spree, which I’m assuming gives them a ton of power in negotiations with existing streaming services. Hell, I’m expecting them to launch their own any day now.

Creatively, I might agree. In actual fact, the CW has five different shows currently in production and at least two more on the docket. It’s kind of a Walking Dead situation where it’s ballooning to unmanageable size even as the ratings continue to sink.

Sure, but this is a comic book universe.  He still had multiple scenes after that!  

That’s kind of my point. Crisis bridged all four shows and scoured the earth for everyone who’d ever been in a DC project. It ended up with representation from the most obscure corners of the comic adaptation empire. Armageddon felt like a who’s who of who’s still in Berlanti’s phone and is wide open on a Tuesday.

There’s a good attempt to correct some historical injustices, but I also enjoy the implication that if your movie is old enough, it will get on there eventually. “No critic has ever put this on a “must watch” list, we don’t have anything to say about it, and most people haven’t even heard of it, but damn, Jubilo is…

The fact that the overwhelming majority of the guest stars in this, the show’s eighth season, were from shows that the actors had either left or had cancelled from under them kinda makes the Arrowverse feel like it’s dying. I’m not saying it wasn’t good to see Black Lightning again, but maybe that could’ve been mixed…

These “I can’t believe it’s not Batman” shows rarely work for me, and they feel a lot like what I assume they are: attempts to cash in on the Batman IP while saving the most popular character at the center of it all for movies. Batwoman literally has an ongoing plot about retrieving Batman’s trash this season, an…

The individual movies lay a lot of groundwork for the big team-up films, most obviously just by introducing the characters who factor in to the larger events. If you’ve only seen Iron Man and don’t read the comics, then the Avengers is just Tony teaming up with a couple of thinly sketched dudes who come out of nowhere.…

The last Star Wars trilogy seems like the “worst of both worlds” sweet spot where there were a bunch of half-finished plot threads that had to be addressed and mandatory characters that had to be used, but no plan given to the next guy, who had a wildly different vision and style, for following up on any of them. It’d…

I mean, if you really want to be cynical about something, it seems to me that most of the shows were carefully constructed to appear more interconnected with the movies than they are. They’re all direct responses to Endgame’s plot, but that movie ends with Sam taking over from Steve, Wanda dealing with the loss of…

Yeah, it seems like these movies might be working because there is not some detailed plan that every creative is locked into. If it’s really just a project’s writer going “I want this; can I have this?” and getting a “sure, we’ll toss that in after the credits over here,” then that seems way less intrusive than actual…

Ossenfelder if we’re really going to the wall.

The review sort of gets at this, but this seems like a lot of scorn directed at something that clearly worked for its audience. We have tendency to talk about “good” kids movies as something that the whole family can enjoy forever, but “just’ making something that’s fun for a specific group of people at a specific…

Seriously, Six Feet Under was a B+ show that went out with an A+ closer. It is possibly the worst imaginable candidate for a reboot/remake. Fucking it up is a statistical certainty. It’s the antithesis of Michael C. Hall’s other revival, which isn’t great but had nowhere to go but up.

Your first paragraph makes total sense, but I’m arguing that the $70 million seems like a bad investment, and those initial instincts were right. If they had released the toned version you describe, there wouldn’t really be any confusion here.

Cult shows tend to make more sense for streaming services than a broadcast…

$70 million for four hours of streaming content seems ridiculously steep, especially since, as you say, it was unlikely to recoup anywhere close to that. You could pick up the rights to a handful of cult shows for that price and get something that it would take most people months to watch instead if content is the…

I guess what I mean is that it’s hard to quantify how much value you’re getting out of a single movie in terms of subscriptions and eyeballs. If someone subscribes, watches only Justice League, and immediately cancels, then sure, you know exactly how much revenue the movie generated. But I doubt that’s how most people…

I’m not sure the WB knows if they made their money back. I don’t even really know what the plan was. They spent $40 million on it, but were people really subscribing to HBO Max for one movie? If so, how would you track that? Were they hoping to make it up in DVD sales? Is that going to make up for the complete lack of…

For me, it benefited a lot from the lowest of expectations. I’d argue the theatrical release was the worst big two superhero movie in a decade, and neither of Snyder’s previous DC movies were in the top 50%. The villain is still boring as shit and the character arcs range from non-existent to underdeveloped even at 4…