It's official: Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery announced an agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.
lol i dropped netflix years ago. then i dropped Hulu, then i dropped prime. hbo was the last one standing, and i resolved to drop it with the last price increase but im kinda wanting to see where Welcome to Derry is going first. its my last streamer, and the back catalogue is pretty sharp, so im not aggressively disastisfied yet.
but if this merger happens, i will be unironically very happy to cancel netflix a second time and write something super snippy in the comment box.
its insane to me how mergers work. netflix fucking sucks. their price hikes coupled with quiet catalogue deletion and the absolute shit tier quality of their studios enshittified them so fast, they have clearly begun a mortality spiral.
so obviously, because the logic of capitalism is supreme, they can draw on dubious valuation and leverage crazy credit to make a hail mary pass at buying out a much more established, older competitor to reset their terminal decline and saddle the new entity with so much debt, the enshittification will start again at warp speed.
for you cultural archivists out there, get as much of HBOs back catalogue as you can, because you know that shit will vanish off the platform once netflix takes over and begins their stealth content pruning.
OK so I just downloaded Welcome to Derry S1E1 because (a) you kinda recommended it and (b) I thought it would be some Irish shit, maybe some Peaky-Blinders-esque violence at some point but maybe just about a new family moving in and adjusting. I even saw the original IT a few weeks ago but had apparently completely forgotten about the town name.
Anyway, the internet here isn’t fast enough to download something else tonight so back to getting the daylights scared out of me.
just to warn you, the first episode is the weakest imo. it has some really gross/vioent scenes and its before introducing any of the things i became curious about. like i almost decided against eatching any more but i was bored a few weeks later and decided to give it another shot.
its definitely more interesting starting with ep2.
lol i dropped netflix years ago. then i dropped Hulu, then i dropped prime. hbo was the last one standing, and i resolved to drop it with the last price increase but im kinda wanting to see where Welcome to Derry is going first. its my last streamer, and the back catalogue is pretty sharp, so im not aggressively disastisfied yet.
but if this merger happens, i will be unironically very happy to cancel netflix a second time and write something super snippy in the comment box.
its insane to me how mergers work. netflix fucking sucks. their price hikes coupled with quiet catalogue deletion and the absolute shit tier quality of their studios enshittified them so fast, they have clearly begun a mortality spiral.
so obviously, because the logic of capitalism is supreme, they can draw on dubious valuation and leverage crazy credit to make a hail mary pass at buying out a much more established, older competitor to reset their terminal decline and saddle the new entity with so much debt, the enshittification will start again at warp speed.
for you cultural archivists out there, get as much of HBOs back catalogue as you can, because you know that shit will vanish off the platform once netflix takes over and begins their stealth content pruning.
OK so I just downloaded Welcome to Derry S1E1 because (a) you kinda recommended it and (b) I thought it would be some Irish shit, maybe some Peaky-Blinders-esque violence at some point but maybe just about a new family moving in and adjusting. I even saw the original IT a few weeks ago but had apparently completely forgotten about the town name.
Anyway, the internet here isn’t fast enough to download something else tonight so back to getting the daylights scared out of me.
just to warn you, the first episode is the weakest imo. it has some really gross/vioent scenes and its before introducing any of the things i became curious about. like i almost decided against eatching any more but i was bored a few weeks later and decided to give it another shot.
its definitely more interesting starting with ep2.