#so mad at you Netflix

[aella081]

I JUST started watching the untamed and NOW Netflix wants to take it off??? I'm like so upset. First they take tgcf off, now this??? Netflix hates me

[rooksilver]

so youre telling me. theres an adaptation of orpheus and eurydice. where eurydice was falling out of love with orpheus before her death but didnt know how to tell him, and when he walks into the underworld to get her back, shes forced to confess that she planned to leave him?? and shes the one to ask him to look back, but he doesn’t want to, because he knows she isn’t coming with him??? youre telling me that when he finally looks back, he does lose her, but only because he’s letting go??? you’re telling me its about grief? about drifting apart?? about moving on??? about love, and how its messy, and how sometimes it just doesn’t work out even if you go to hell and back for it, because we’re human and thats our tragedy????

you’re telling me netflix CANCELLED it?

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

the original winx

costuming of the characters in the adaptation by a multi-billion dollar company

katseye’s halloween costumes

[gwentbleidd]

still my favorite thing about all this is that joey batey really woke up one day, said 'hell yeah queer jaskier' and made thousands of people SO mad

[theburialofstrawberries]

"In the past, whenever the movies in Hollywood went stale and executives exerted too much control over artists, the industry had an important hand brake: the audience. If a movie bombed with audiences and box office numbers plummeted, then studios would have to change course. After all, the box office has always been viewed as the gold standard of metrics in Hollywood for a reason: it’s the most distilled and straightforward measurement of audience interest. Moviegoers must choose to buy tickets. They cannot skip around, fast-forward, or order groceries through the Prime app on their phone. No moviegoer enters a theater expecting to leave after two minutes. Until Netflix, one of cinema’s essential qualities, the thing that distinguished it from television, was the way it commanded an audience’s attention. Whether a movie grossed big numbers or bombed, a box office report carried an inadmissible truth: the vast majority of the audience experienced the movie in full, and its taste couldn’t be ignored.

How to predict the audience’s taste — what will make money and what won’t — is a question that’s plagued Hollywood since its inception. The problem was captured by the screenwriter William Goldman in 1983. “Nobody knows anything,” he wrote in his book Adventures in the Screen Trade. “Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work.” Netflix’s greatest innovation was that it found a way around this uncertainty: it provided a platform on which there are no failures, where everything works.

This is an important milestone for the largest Hollywood studios as they all set their sights on integrating artificial intelligence into their productions. In March, news outlets reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had held meetings with top studios to showcase his company’s text-to-video generator, Sora. Clips generated by Sora that circulated online alternated between drone shots of cityscapes that look ripped from video-game cut scenes and animals rendered in the 3D animated style common to Hollywood productions today. Streaming platforms are the only place where this garbage makes any sense — a place where it would never be watched at all.

But by insulating their films from failure, the streamers have destroyed the meaning of success. Thierry Frémaux, head of the Cannes Film Festival and a vocal critic of streamers, understood this well when he presented the dilemma at a Cannes press conference in 2021. “What directors have been discovered by [streaming] platforms?” he asked. It wasn’t a rhetorical question. Frémaux began calling on journalists to name an auteur whose career had been launched by a streamer. By this point, Netflix had released more than seven hundred films in the US alone, with hundreds of directors attached. Yet as the Guardian later reported of the scene, “nobody could name any at all, in fact.”

Here, streaming platforms have achieved a strange paradox. Never has a group of studios gained so much control over the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of movies by making movies no one cares about or remembers. Having not only failed to discover a new generation of auteurs, the streamers have also ensured that their filmmakers are little more than precarious content creators, ineligible to share the profits of any hit. It’s a shift that has induced a profound sense of confusion."

Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin, for n+1 mag

[bits-and-pieces-of]

She’s his sidekick, he’s her dad, she’s his mentor, he’s her best friend. They’ve known each other for a few days, they’ve spent their whole lives looking for each other, he sees her, she understands him, they’re flawed, they’re perfect, they don’t need anyone, but it’s the two of them choosing each other against the world that betrayed them.

[froggybirdtaco]

why dis [V] look so mad 😭😭😭

[ivetried27nameswhataboutthis1]

Enid: If we’re gonna sneak out of the Academy, we should find someone to cover for us.

Wednesday: Who?

Enid: Maybe Yoko.

Wednesday: Alright, give me five minutes. I’ll break her soul by finding out her true fears, turning them into reality and therefore threatening her into covering for us, to end her suffering. When I’m done with her, she won’t even remember her own name. Let me get my torture knife.

Enid: Or we could just ask her.

Wednesday: Or that, yes. That could also work, I guess.

Enid: Are you upset now?

Wednesday: No, your idea is fine. I’m fine. This is..fine.

Enid: Are you sure?

Wednesday: Mhm.

Enid: Why don’t you get the knife, just in case?

Wednesday: You are my favorite person in the whole world.

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

[sleepyrxsetea]

dear big streaming services:

when will you stop canceling my shows? stop saying ‘not enough people were watching it’ or whatever the fuck you are trying to push even when they are always in the top 10 for weeks. even when given almost no advertising.

you know, i have watched a lot of the queer shows on your platforms already. it wasn’t too hard considering that were barely any there to begin with and as a queer person, finding shows with someone like me in it is extremely difficult, even if it is horribly done, and when you cancel the shows i have even less shows to watch.

i want to be able to see myself in the shows i watch. let me see queer couples falling in and possibly out of love, kiss and make up after a fight. let me see trans characters and nonbinary characters and all people in between figuring themselves out and being proud to be themselves. let me see asexual and aromantic characters being told that they ‘haven’t found the right person’ and realizing that they are perfect the way that they are, maybe having a partner or qpr or anything in between. let the stories be told that you are seemingly trying so hard to keep quite.

i’m tired of this. it may be a coincidence, of course. it could just be that viewership was actually down, which is completely possible or whatever the reason may be. but there is an extremely weird coincidence then and a statistical wonder that i have a list of shows off the top of my head that have been cancelled and queer and not given complete stories or given rushed endings even though they were really popular and even though they sometimes had little to no advertising. let queer we shows have more then one season. let queer stories have the ending the deserve.

warmest regards,

a really pissed and tired aroace nonbinary person who has had enough of this

[whoops-im-obsessed]

death to streaming death to netflix fuck you fuck you fuck you

[mieczyhale]

LET'S GO, CROWS

[inpursuitofnunchi]

OH GOD WILL WE GET A CONFESSION TOMORROW? PLS PLS PLS

[krash-and-co]

"it's so nice to see what's going on without being stuck in Lucy's head" sounded pretty fun but now I'm like what did we even mean by that other than locklyle and finding people aren't as ugly as she described. like. the girl wasn't insane she's not TOO far off from reality guys

[hanzajesthanza]

also i realize i'm saying all these noble and beautiful things about the channel from the purest depths of my heart. but actually i'm also just doing this because i fucking love the witcher books and it pisses me off that people don't know about them that much in english and i can only go for so long (seven years) with people not knowing that there are books. or that the witcher is from the 90s. or polish.

[smuganya]

ÉLITE (2018-2024) I am hereby announcing the closure of Las Encinas. To ensure that you are able to sit for your final exams, we have reached an agreement with a public high school. Did she say "public"?