Julia Alexander

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Today, Explained · Attention deficit television · 21 Nov 2025 podcast

And we understand that that is our direct competitor in a way that, you know, someone flipping through a magazine or watching a movie, that was not necessarily going to be a direct competitor.

So it's not about dumbing down.

It's about acknowledging where the future of competition is coming from.

I think we all want to believe that we are of higher quality caliber than in fact we are.

And by that, I mean, you look at all these people who are outraged.

I mean, I'd be outraged if someone came out and said Netflix is purposely dumbing stuff down.

I'd be like, well, that sucks and I don't like it.

But in reality, I was watching Frankenstein the other night with my fiance and he was playing Candy Crush the entire time.

And then in a group chat the next day, he's complaining about the quality of films.

But the quality of the film, such as Frankenstein, a beautiful Guillermo del Toro movie, which is not the Lindsay Lohan Irish Wish.

It has nothing to do with a Netflix executive coming out and saying, you know, you've got to dumb this down.

It has everything to do with the fact that they're responding to what people are saying in the actions that they do.

And if people really did not want Irish Wish, they would not watch Irish Wish.

But the Lindsay Lohan Christmas movies, for example, and all those other kind of Netflix fare that we associate with a specific trope are heavily watched.

One of the effects of what you're seeing play out is that we had a golden age of television about 15 years ago.

15 years ago, a lot of the bigger movie stars and the writers and directors in film who didn't want to make Marvel movies and didn't want to make big sci-fi blockbusters moved to TV.

And so for a period of about 10 to 15 years, we had a great moment of just stunning, well-written, gorgeous television.

And then what happened was the competition for eyeballs on the TV screen started to really speed up and you had YouTube come in.

Oh my god.

You had Mr. Beast.

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