Neil Freiman
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I would love to.
Okay, quick defense of Netflix.
Stating the plot of the movie is not necessarily new.
We were watching A Mission Impossible last night.
And we were absolutely cracking up at the amount of exposition that they were talking about.
But I think Damon is hitting on something here that people who are watching the last season of Stranger Things noticed a ton, which is that these characters were reiterating the plot and saying what happened and what they were about to do.
Literally every five minutes, every single episode, they took out props and just essentially explained, you know, the plot of Stranger Things.
And this is apparently, according to Damon himself,
coming from on high at Netflix and shows how, yeah, movie watching, TV consumption is changing.
We're not in the theater anymore where we're essentially captives to a big screen.
We're in our houses with a million different distractions.
And Netflix is armed with more data than we know of.
So they know exactly how people are consuming their content when they're turning it on, when they're turning it off.
So, you know, maybe they know something that we don't.
Not maybe, they definitely know something that we don't.
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China continues to shrink and there's no let up in sight.