It’s tough because he does earn complaints by leaning on snark as a crutch, just not the weirdly personal invective that people tend to use when doing so. It’s the difference between “You suck, get an editor” and “You’re a terrible human and should burn to death in an open air offal pit surrounded by your loved ones,…

Hyperbole is kinda the house style. Kinda the internet in general, really. Doesn’t make you wrong, just makes you a little bit pissing in the wind.

Also in Episode 2, Linda’s sister Maxine owns a dog salon. Let’s talk about that for a while. In Episode 3 we’ll explore Linda’s dollhouse collection for 20 minutes of a 30 minute show. And of course every couple of episodes we meet Steve’s coworkers, none of whom ever met Linda and only knew Steve from the job.

I’m not really in a position to “grant” you anything. But sure. And while this was in direct response to you, it wasn’t really *about* you. If you’ve been around here for any amount of time you’ll have seen the drubbing he takes. Which is only partially earned.

I think you’re really underestimating inertia. And yeah, of course it has the biggest subscriber base. It was the first. I also question “a lot” and “wouldn’t have existed”.

That’s my feeling exactly. There are months where I won’t watch anything on my Shudder but I’ll likely never cut it.

In theory, maybe. But as we’ve seen with most goods and services there’s unfettered price gouging. And of course behind it all is the very boring and repetitive but no less true problem of corporatist Unending Growth.

Fair. But also: engagement. Which I say as both a cynical response and a genuine practical response. It is true when some commenters bitch that these sites like to throw up articles or slideshows to keep their clicks up. But also, that’s the only way these sites continue to exist. So while I agree that this isn’t…

If you’ve ever visited a piracy site, you know the answer:

A buddy of mine who is both a console and PC gamer told me recently that he’s stopped bothering with PC gaming because his job is looking at a computer screen all day and he doesn’t like the feeling of his leisure time being that close to his labor time. That’s obviously hugely anecdotal and I don’t at all consider it…

$500 is a good chunk of change but it’s not an Alienware gaming laptop. Consoles are not remotely in danger of getting killed. And I don’t know if you know this but Steamboxes already exist and aren’t making a dent.

Any kind of proof on that or just feels?

Yep. I’m a fan of Noah Baumbach. I really like The Meyerowitz Stories. It’s one of like two or three Sandler movies I can stomach. But who the fuck knows if it’ll ever be on disc? At least Marriage Story got a Criterion Blu.

Sure. And when every time Barsanti writes an article it includes snark, commenting on the snark loses its punch as well.

I’m not inherently against what you’re saying here but FFS, when the Emmys can’t even decide whether The Bear or Succession or Barry are “comedies” or “dramas” it’s a little hard to take the idea of “targeting specific audiences” seriously. When I think about all the TV shows and movies I love I have a hard time…

I love my Shudder but it’s also relatively cheap and they don’t have stupid rules. When Netflix rocketed up to around $20/mo and they instituted their stupid fucking “one IP address per account” shit I said fuck you and dropped them. The *actual* key to streamer survival will be a stop to chiseling everyone and just…

At a certain point it starts to feel as performative as they accuse him of being.

I’m sad that I won’t get to watch Sandman S2 if it ever fucking comes out but I’ll live. (Especially cuz Yarrr, here be dragons.)

And their docuseries tend to have the same problem as most of their fiction series, which is a complete lack of understanding of how to pace any goddam thing. The binge streaming model has fucked TV quite badly.

I dropped Netflix a couple of months ago for being fuckwits. They are not “good” in any way. I don’t give a tin shit about their “streaming model”, I care that they think it’s okay to upcharge me for multiple IP address access (when I was already paying extra for the fucking “privilege” of multiple screens) and…