Isn’t that the issue though? The best romcom of 2020 doesn’t make the Top 25 movies of the year or the 16 honorable mentions.

I think this is the case of one person’s reboot being another person’s streamlining continuity shakeup.

“Was that Martin Freeman as the voice of the unseen director?”

Yeah, the answer to the repeated “why does this exist?” questions in the article boil down to Charlie Brooker is very funny and his (and his writers) word choices are often fucking perfect.

For sure. Sobriety is hard at the best of times, nevermind during whatever the fuck everyone's dealing with at the moment. Hope they get the help they need.

Yeah, I heard he did rehab to stop smoking weed constantly.

I don't know Guns Akimbo, but the other two are films about violent murderers, so I'm cool with casual drug use there. 

Apparently Pete Davidson isn’t actually a hard drugs guy at all, but everyone thinks he because he's constantly smoked up and has Crohn’s Disease.

It depends on your geography and social circles.  It seems much more common in big cities. I’m always amazed how its either a massive no no in most social circles (the ones I largely hang out in) , but considered no big deal at all in others. I’ve found on film sets and with media people it’s still shockingly common.…

I love the AVClub and all, but their film criticism tends to venerate more highbrow/niche/arty/esoteric stuff than their TV reviews. I enjoy reading their end of year lists but there's rarely any room for stuff that's actually fun to watch. 

Since you don’t seem receptive to my genuine well wishes, I’ll try this.

“nothing about this article or discussion involves intellectual property”

So there are NDAs in regards to plot points and intellectual property, but it was “pathetic, embarrassing and idiotic” for me to suggest TV writers sign NDAs?

Of course I’m pathetic, I’m a TV writer (UK based admittedly)

By my reading, that doesn’t seem to be his issue. He was reasonable about his own film’s cinema run  being cancelled. He almost certainly lost out when Statten Island went VOD, so it doesn’t seem like a personal gripe. He understands plans need to change, but thinks the distributors should at the work with their…

I’m not arguing he’s a saint or a hard-core socialist. I don’t think he has to be, to comment on companies in his industry acting unprofessionally.

Judd Apatow already had his movie go straight to VOD and was happy enough with it because he and the people involved were consulted. He’s complaining about studios changing contracts and plans without consulting people whose lives it affects. One of the films had two thirds of its almost 200million dollar budget was…

“barely made $100M domestic” But it made another almost $300m worldwide. Netflix’s model is driven by new subscribers and they’re largely international. It has reached near saturation point in North America and Europe, so it’s looking elsewhere.

“please let me know if there’s anything I wouldn’t want public in all the voice notes... I don’t know what’s in them.”

The irony is that the pearl clutchers are all rabid monarchists who think the show reflects poorly on the Windsors. When it goes out of its way to make Liz look far more sympathetic than there’s the slightest bit of evidence for (she was deeply concerned about the working man and anti Thatcher?). And thats before you…