Oxark kinda hits the skids in the middle part of the season. Solid opening and premise, but the show is floundering a bit by eps 4-5, though. I think everyone should feel free to stop mentioning Breaking Bad when describing it.
Oxark kinda hits the skids in the middle part of the season. Solid opening and premise, but the show is floundering a bit by eps 4-5, though. I think everyone should feel free to stop mentioning Breaking Bad when describing it.
^^^ My thoughts exactly. Middle episodes really let it down which was a shame considering the promising start.
The storyline is actually a great one, just a complete fail by the writers to take it into hillbilly land. I mean it was so fucking bad lol
Couldn't believe they used Del in only 3 of the episodes either. Another fail.
That said. I would definitely watch another series as the crux of the storyline is solid. They just need new writers.
Just finished Ozark imo is was strong out the gate, weak in middle, meh ending. They just had to do my boy Lulu dirty again. And that baby scene ffs for a second I forgot he was a preacher and just about freaked out.
You aren't exactly firing me up to finish this.Originally Posted by tommyt
I know it's not Netflix, but this now the TV thread, so here's my report on Snowfall.
Through 4 episodes, my feeling is similar to Ozark. The first two episodes were great. Good set up, pretty promising story lines with the black kids, the Israeli drug kingpin and the CIA-Contra guys. I thought the Latinos were lame and pace killers, though. Ep 3 and 4 dragged with too much torture porn and too long of a stay with the Latinos.
Friends from college is great kingdom is best show on TV
Netflix movie selection is _________________.
Huge fan of Difficult People on Hulu.
The Handmaid's Tale has been excellent.
Episode 10 tomorrow night. Would assume the series has already aired in the US?
never heard of it, will search. i have started Frontier. mediocre to bad. can't decide which. they keep adding to soap opera love lines like its a king and queens court, yet they are supposed to be frontier bandits and fur traders. losing me fast. hope it picks up.
Shite.
I did steal a beauty from the webs last night
This Way Something Wicked Comes
my new mission statement
Get while the gettin's good. Netflix is $20,000,000,000 in debt.
Honestly this took me by surprise; Netflix is easily one of the top three if not top two most financially generous dot coms to work for. Their stock packages are legendary. But apparently they run entirely on other peoples money and there is a serious conversation popping up in Silicon Valley about 'what happens when the lenders turn off the taps to Netflix'...
edit: 20bn not 20m
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"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Man, wtf, Sam Shepard died from ALS? Had no idea he was even sick. Such a multitalented character. Curious if his diagnosis was reason he was killed off Bloodline, or if it was always written as such?
yeah, did not realize how prolific this guy was
just a side note for comic relief
Norm MacDonald said the same the about Hitler (didn't know he was sick) when informed by straight-man Adam Egat that indeed Adolf was dead
a dumb shtick but had to laugh
Adam is a holocaust denier, don't believe a word he says.
I am not a business analyst, but considering they pull like $10 billion a year, that doesn't sound like very much.
I am not a business analyst, but considering they pull like $10 billion a year, that doesn't sound like very much.
Supposedly the debt is 'healthy' because its money being spent on their own productions, which already have like 91 emmys or some shit, so you have downstream returns in theory, but lets revisit this conversation once Snapchat folds and the only people left in the tech market are the old dudes in the club.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
It's not. Unfortunately they're $20.5 *B*illion in debt.I am not a business analyst, but considering they pull like $10 billion a year, that doesn't sound like very much.
http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...729-story.html
By the end of 2018, they will have to add unskippable commercials to the current base tier. Then for another $10-$15/month, they will offer an ad free premium tier.
To be fair they have over 50 million customers paying at least $8 a month. $20B sounds like a lot of money until you realize they have $400M coming in the door every month. They also have $6B in short term assets as of 12/31/16 o they really upside down $14B. This means if they didn't raise rates and didn't add any new subscribers and stopped paying all its employees they would be debt free in less than 3 years.
Frankly I think they could borrow another $10B and be in good shape.
To keep the subscriber base, they need to spend billions a year for new content. The debt is never going away and the company nor does Wall Street care.
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