There are a lot of mediocre Netflix shows that could be better with more discipline and script notes that pay attention to what doesn't make sense.
And too many of its shows simply gobble up hours without justifying their length.
Tight, well-written, smart half-hour episodes will always be preferable to me over hourlong ones that just twiddle their thumbs and burn up production money without really doing much else, like advancing plot or deepening characters
I don't know how many times I've moaned to my editor that these shows are in desperate need of dramaturgs, but it's a lot
It's one of the things I dread about John Stankey's attempt to make HBO more like Netflix and just push out more content for the sake of doing so; it's a recipe for unmemorable mediocrity and it doesn't serve TV creators or their audiences well
TV is a fundamentally collaborative medium; it suffers when creators turn into auteurs
(I loved Downton Abbey, but I bet it would have improved had Fellowed not written it basically by himself)
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This country does not *have* to be this broken. But it will remain so as long as it continues to self soothe with white supremacist mythology instead of reckoning with truth.
The Capitol Police had more ire and force for Cynthia McKinney, a whole then-SITTING CONGRESSWOMAN that they did for armed terrorists sfgate.com/politics/amp/M…
Leadership basically made Rep. McKinney apologize for that cop's racism!
It was so gross.
All 44 did was (correctly!) say a cop acted stupidly for arresting an old black man who uses a cane entering his own house and he had to have that idiotic beer summit
There are so many dumb things about this, but one I'm going to pull out is Mackey's complete disregard the effects housing segregation and environmental racism have on life expectancy and health