Good thing I’ve never had a password to share…
But fuck these guys. I loved John Oliver’s subtle throwaway line on Sunday, “new business-daddy is mad at us, all the time.”
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
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I can't tell if any of the business daddy stuff is true or just jokes. If the parent company was really mad at them, does Oliver really have the weight to throw around to defy them? Is the show important enough to not risk canceling?
When comedians joke about specific people and corporations, it’s usually wise to listen. Comedians don’t often have enough power to affect change in entrenched systems, so they fall back to what they’re good at; Making fun of the people who have entrenched themselves. It’s phrased as comedy, but it’s a veiled jab at whoever the comedian dislikes. The important point is that it’s a dog whistle, where only the comedian and the target know that it’s not really a joke.
Seth MacFarlane was making “Harvey Weinstein is a predator” and “Bill Cosby is super creepy” jokes on Family Guy, years before the allegations started.
That's a very good point. Even if Oliver doesn't really have the ability to skewer Discovery the way he'd why, him doing it at all is a sign to listen.
Good questions. My sense is that it’s true, but that’s not based on much. HBO historically lets their talent push the envelope, which is one of the reasons their shows are usually so good. Though that might be changing. He wins Emmy’s every damn year though, so I doubt they’d want to lose that.
I'm still a little shell-shocked by Max's turn from one of the best streaming services full of amazing original content, to this shitty garbage dump that it is today.
Removing completed content to avoid paying royalties to creative was such a big fuck you to everyone and everything.
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't unsub from them until they removed 4k from my plan for the same price a while later.
I unsubbed from 4 services after that.
Fuck these guys.
Stop paying for streaming services. Pirate it instead.
I think a lot of these services are going to be disappointed when they find out they don’t have the consumer clout Netflix does. Maybe Max does; time will tell. Either way, I know I won’t be subsidizing Zaslav’s art crushing machine just because I can no longer use one of my family members’ accounts.
To be fair id rather pay for max than netflix (but i pirate everything)
Who is Max and why do people give him their passwords when he doesn't want them?
I’ve never heard of him. Sounds like a creep.
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️arrgh
Not my prob i pirate
Crack down my torrents lol
I have hulu and netflix as part of my tmobile plan and max as part of my att fiber, and yet, I end up using stremio and real-debrid 99% of the time. So many artificial limitations and ad interruptions. The only reason I even use those is for finding my next movie.