Mike Schur

And I think on balance, the best of two bad outcomes would be that Netflix gets this to work in their favor.

But again, I can't emphasize this enough.

Either way, it's not good.

It's bad for writers, bad for actors, bad for directors, and bad for consumers.

It is farcical that Warner Brothers can't exist on its own.

I mean, the question of like... Well, think about this.

This is the thing that you have to think about, right?

Again, HBO and HBO Max, that brand means so much to people our age and to people of most ages.

HBO Max is the same thing as Netflix.

It's an internet streaming platform for content.

What happens if Netflix buys this?

Does HBO disappear forever?

Is that it?

Is it like a tile within Netflix?

Do they get to keep Casey Bloys and all the folks at that company who have been responsible for some of your favorite shows and movies and miniseries and documentaries?

Or are they...

announced as redundant and shuffled off to Buffalo.

Like, there are people whose job it is to still, even in this era of AI and of predictive viewing and all that stuff, whose job it is to program places, to figure out what are the stories we want to tell that are good and how can we get them to people.

And those people are in danger, just like writers and actors and directors and crew members are.

Those people, the executives who program things, are in danger by mergers like this.