So far as I can see, rich people are generally extremely happy to stab other rich people in the back if it makes themselves richer...

Why on earth would Korea buy Chelsea? Countries don’t generally own football clubs, Newcastle excepted (City are owned by a private hedge fund, though it’s closely entangled with the Emirati royals) - and ROK is a democracy.

Yes, that’s apparently what happened.

I’ve tried watching ITC several times now, because I keep coming across a bunch of funny scenes on youtube... only to find that that ten second clip o whatever is literally the only funny moment in an episode. I’d like to like it, but the clever jokes are suffocated in this wet blanket of banal slapstick and…

Looking at a large world and deciding it’s shit because the amount of stuff you personally like is smaller than the amount that you personally don’t like (but other people do) is the epitome of narcissism. And is guaranteed to make you miserable, because most of the world is not designed specifically to please you.

The two big ones for me are the inability to find things (plus, as regards interface, the way that even navigating around between my own downloaded and favourited things is weirdly less easy than it should be) and the lack of advertising. There have been series I’d have thought of myself as in the potential audience…

Cue accusation of failing to understand the plight of low-income POC residents fighting against racism in the housing sector, etc

This issue was raised in the comments at the time - it’s hard to fully sympathise with the NIMBYs when their complaints (noise so loud that eardrums will bleed a hundred leagues away, dense chocking smog that will choke and kill small children, an environmental catastrophe that will see birds collapsing out of the sky…

Yeah, but if you’ve been complaining about your neighbour since 1985 the chances are you won’t be embracing them - or anything - now.

They’ve not done brilliantly in that respect, have they? But, to be fair, that’s often the case - few TV stars get to be stars in more than one major show, and few make the leap to film. Look at The Wire: Elba’s a star, three or four others have respectable ‘oh, it’s that guy from the wire!’ careers, and most of the…

If it didn’t affect the amount of money in my bank account? Sure, I’d have no problem with speculators not betting as much on me.

Netflix have proportionally very low levels of debt now - debt/EBITDA is around 1 - after a year and a half of steadily paying down debt. Revenues are increasing. In real, core terms even subscriber numbers are still increasing, once you factor out the Russian embargo (which is unlikely to be repeated with other major…

Just to clarify: Lewis and Serena aren’t going to buy the club, and aren’t trying to. As you say, the club’s value is on a different scale from the number they’re throwing around: it’s probably down to around £1.5bn now.

I guess you could steal it, sell it to a disreputable dealer, and have them sell it to an unsuspecting random customer. Random customer will never bother to look up the serial number on their watch and discover it was stolen. It’s a risk for the dealer, but not a huge risk, and $320,000 is a lot of money...

Does Nikita have any younger siblings?

It’ll apparently have Vecna. Vecna probably demanded payment.

Wait, is Peep Show not on Netflix for Americans?

Another way to see the Stranger Things budget would be: is Stranger Things worth 50% more per episode than “The Pacific” cost over a decade ago? Is it worth twice as much as “See”?

Yeah, GOT went for almost entirely unknown actors, and mostly stuck with that even when it become a juggernaut. I mean, sure, they got Carcetti from the Wire, and a couple of British actors you might recognise from an episode of Poirot, and Lovejoy popped in for an episode, but... yeah, their cast was not a big part…

Eh, they’ve still got more money than us. Like, all of us, together, combined. Their revenues increased “only” 10% in the last three months alone - it’s considered a disaster because it was at 16% the quarter before that, and 25% a year ago. They lost 200,000 subscribers net - but they definitely lost around 700,000…