DramatistDreamer

Netflix is trying to pull an Amazon, in terms of trying to gobble up market share but entertainment is not like warehousing stuff to sell, so we'll see how/whether this strategy works. I have my own ideas on the matter but I'm just going to observe for now to see what becomes of all this.

Except Netflix is also doing movies that compete with those in the movie theaters, while HBO is not. I would think that, for that reason alone, the Hollywood establishment regards HBO much more favorably than Netflix. As great at HBO has been over decades, they are not going to compete directly with the movie theaters. HBO is disruptive, but there is a limit to that level of disruption. What HBO is doing is not threatening to the movie theater industry, while Netflix is clearly intent on going there.

One of the courts is named Butch Buchholz Court, there's the Grandstand Court and Stadium Court. On ESPN3 livestream all the courts are listed. I think the courts look good on the livestream, not really sure how they play yet because I know various things like temperature and wear on the court can affect the courts over time and I haven't really watched enough matches to hazard much of a guess. One observation: it looks like players might be hitting a heavy ball by the way the balls are travelling through the air, perhaps that is also being affected by the conditions?

Was it a qualifying match or Main Draw?

What a mess of an administration. I've never seen anything like this!

One of the moments that is seared in my memory is the bitter disappointment I felt when I read about the vote to go to war by invading Iraq.

Private Number was always the first song that came to mind for me when I thought of the The Jets but after I watched that episode, Rocket 2 U was in my head several times yesterday, LOL. I had no clue what that song was about when that song debuted, I was too young. It's a shame that one faction of the family sued the other, and the parents encouraged this?? They really need to rebuild the original lineup, the tour would be more stronger if they did this. The younger Jets can form their own spinoff group where they always be an opening act for performances. The time is now, while the Unsung episode is still fresh and they are on people's minds. There have been quite a few musicians who have re-launched their careers in the wake of their Unsung episodes. If the likes of The Cover Girls and Exposé can get themselves on some type of tour, The Jets, who are far more talented should be able to, especially if they can get on a double bill with another musical act that was also popular around the time period that they were popular. New Edition, New Kids On The Block and BoyzIIMen were very successful when they all toured together for awhile. 1980s and 90s nostalgia is big right now, The Jets could really have another chance at musical success (maybe not at the levels they were in the 80s but a nice career as performers) if done well. That manager really did them dirty. His absence from the documentary spoke volumes. Someone on Twitter asked whether Bruno Mars could've been influenced by The Jets. There were some who responded yes and some no, stating that Bruno Mars is Puerto Rican and Hawaiian (I'm not sure why this would rule him out as being influenced by The Jets since Hawaiians are technically Polynesian/Pacific Islanders, as are Tongans). I'd love for someone to actually ask Bruno about this, I think it's a good question. Anyway, I thought the episode was fun (well except for the health and family crises) and it sent me looking for other performances on YouTube. By the way, anyone who hasn't seen it and wants to- https://tvone.tv/video/unsung-the-jets/ I would recommend watching it on Firefox browser and I cannot guarantee that the link will be active forever so...watch it while you can.

Dana Delaney! This episode was quite enjoyable, imo. The cat and mouse interplay between John Dixon and James Stenbeck is very compelling. It's nice to see Justin Deas (as Tom Hughes) give a performance that isn't hammy. To see Margo arguing with Lyla and being very much invested in a relationship with James is quite interesting to see. Those scenes between Brad and Eric Hollister were...uh, interesting. I was mostly interested in their discussion about Hayley and it was kind of weird to see that Brad was thinking about the possibilities of a relationship with either Lisa or Dee Stewart, two very different women. Also, I liked this actor who played Rick Ryan. In the later iteration of Rick, the character was much more obvious as a menace, very oily but this Rick is a bit more complex, almost wears two faces, one that appears earnest but underneath, lies a mercenary. I would love to see more episodes from these storylines. The video quality is excellent too, I'm guessing it's from one of the SoapClassics collections.

Apparently, someone from IMG, which owns the Miami Open, referred to the tournament as the new U.S. Open (the U.S. has roofs, though!).

Some of tweets of Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota are being exposed and it is not a good look. At all.

Miami Open owner and organizers were boasting about all that damn luxury of their new venue, etc. but couldn't spend the coin on a damn roof?? Their first day is an entire washout.

Netflix from the mid 2000s to 2014 was a pretty good service, in the fact that you could find quite a few indie hidden gems that you really couldn't find elsewhere. Over the last few years there has been a big push for big names, in terms of directors and showrunners, not to mention over-emphasis on algorithms and other nonsense metrics. It happened (in a slightly different way) with terrestrial network TV, it happened with cable TV ("150 channels and nothing to watch?") and it's happening online with online streaming. Everyone's focused on Netflix because it has become a behemoth but much of the same can be said of Amazon (perhaps on a more modest scale) especially if you go back and read the criticisms of Transparent (even before the sexual harassment scandal), which was at least good. The Man In The High Castle but does anyone remember Alpha House? Hand of God? Let's not even get into the stuff with Woody Allen's contract with Amazon, although I suspect the lawyers will get into it as the lawsuit progresses. It's the nature of TV, quite frankly to go through periods of fresh and stale. There's that old joke (or is it an adage?) about TV being referred to as a Medium, because it is neither Rare nor Well-Done.

Now that Floridians have voted to restore voting rights to former felons (excluding rape and murder, of course), perhaps it was inevitable that the state would try to find a workaround in which to disenfranchise more people.

Just when you thought you knew all about this character named Justin Gimelstob, there are articles like this one that drop even more nuggets that make you say "ugh". Justin Gimelstob: the chequered history of the man who wants to take over tennis “He is very loud and energetic, and maybe you like it or don’t,” said Ivan Ljubicic, a former world No.3 who served alongside him. “The board meetings were never very quiet when he was around.”

@Khan I think the model for online streaming has gradually but definitively become predicated on 'binge-viewing'. At first, I thought that binge-viewing was a gimmick, a way for streaming platforms like Netflix to differentiate themselves from broadcast networks with Netflix's 'all at once' model of releasing episodes. Even though binge-watching didn't begin with online-- it began with DVD release of seasons by popular shows and people's consumption of multiple episodes in one sitting--online streamers like Netflix made it "a thing" that they could capitalize on by marketing themselves as a platform that allowed subscribers to binge to their hearts' content. I don't really associate terrestrial, network TV as binge-able or promoting binge-watching, I actually think the networks want to promote the opposite-- a SLOW viewing model, where episodes are released one by one and viewers savor them. I think the episodes tend to move slower these days because executives likely want to the shows to feel as though they are giving viewers a chance to get an "in" to the series wherever they are, without feeling lost, giving the viewer a chance to get acquainted with the show and 'catch up' no matter where in the season the viewer begins to watch the show. It's more of a strategy to attract new viewers, who generally feel that if they miss the first few episodes, they may not bother to start watching the series--this is those networks' efforts to ingratiate their shows to those viewers.

This is vile.

I like Sam Elliott and I Iike Debra Winger. I could not make it through more than one episode of that show. I'm really out of the Hollywood loop because until last year, I knew almost nothing about Masterson, other than he was said to be a Scientologist because of that HBO documentary, most likely. I didn't know that he was a predator.

Ideally ODAAT should've have to option to have been released the way a traditional sitcom was--on a weekly basis. Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act is released on a weekly basis. When you have episodes that are choc-full of content that can get emotional or have intense moments (a la ODAAT) it might have been preferable to allow the viewers to take in one episode per week. One thing I really resented was how Netflix made bingeing into their model of how successful a show is for the majority of their series television. It was as if you had to watch at least 5 episodes in one weekend or the show was under threat of cancellation. Well, I don't like that threat hanging over a show like the sword of Damocles. I prefer to watch three episodes in a weekend, or two episodes or even one in a weekend, if that's what I feel like doing. Also, am I really to believe that The Ranch, that Ashton Kutcher series is really doing all that well? I hear almost nothing about that show and haven't for at least a year. Maybe it's better than I thought.

When I took a course on writing the TV sitcom, you learn that the comedy and the pathos are always heightened because the format is so condensed, compared to an hour-long serial. Machado has chops. Can she sing? Lin-Manuel should consider her for the stage. She's small but she has boundless energy. Not every show is going to appeal to everybody. I hated Full House and rarely thought it funny or entertaining but I respect people's right to enjoy it and was happy for the people who got to see it rebooted for the time.

This looks like something that would've appeared in TV Guide too.

Great promo ad. https://classicsodcovers.tumblr.com/post/183515980908/classicsodcovers-theres-more-to-come

No, you're not the only one. I found myself trying to hazard a guess as to whether Cooper and Kayzer were in the midst of their dalliance/relationship at that time. Cooper played it mostly as an intimacy borne of dependence but there was an intimate quality to their interactions in those scenes. I guess it doesn't help, knowing all that BTS subtext.

You're in Australia, right? That's a shame. Thinking about that post that I made, I probably shouldn't have made a generalization about New Zealanders, in general but keep it to those who were directly affected by the mosque attacks on Friday. Most likely, right now they have far pressing concerns on their minds, like burying their dead. It just reminded me about how just days after 9/11 many in the U.S. were already beating the war drums and most New Yorkers (myself included) were just concerned about how we were going to pull our daily lives back together into something that resembled a normal routine.