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Yeah but she's almost getting typecast into the crazy but brilliant broad - even in Beast
Maybe she does the hysterics really well.
Morena has a serious bod but she doesn't occupy much for me ...the daughter is well cast and acted.
How I spent my first week Dec 2025 ....bingeing Homeland
No one does cry face like Clare Danes!
sburns
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Seems the deal is taking another possible twist, if 82 billion wasn't enough, how about 108 billion.
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal
The offer comes a week after Netflix struck a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's movie, television and streaming assets. Paramount's hostile bid would see it acquire the entire company, including its cable channels.
www.nbcnews.com
I don't care either way, but if I had to side, I would prefer Netflix over Paramount and the bunch of leeches backing them. Netflix seems to be genuinely interested in making content as they have turned out some good stuff, and are building studios and things related to delivering new experiences. The other guys just seem to be in it for the money.
Believe me when I saw Netflix is just in it for the money. The shooting schedule on Netflix series is borderline abusive to crew and talent.Seems the deal is taking another possible twist, if 82 billion wasn't enough, how about 108 billion.
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal
The offer comes a week after Netflix struck a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's movie, television and streaming assets. Paramount's hostile bid would see it acquire the entire company, including its cable channels.
I don't care either way, but if I had to side, I would prefer Netflix over Paramount and the bunch of leeches backing them. Netflix seems to be genuinely interested in making content as they have turned out some good stuff, and are building studios and things related to delivering new experiences. The other guys just seem to be in it for the money.
Priller
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This little nugget is the key to the whole thing:
As noted, it takes some doing to make Netflix the good guys (or, rather, the less worse guys), but this gang of despotic criminals and oligarchs somehow manages it. It's no coincidence that bottomless cash has suddenly appeared to back a company valued generously at 1/4 of the cash they've somehow magicked up.
The Trumpiness of it all more or less guarantees this will go to Paramount, and by extension become yet another Trump mouthpiece via the Ellisons, MBS, and Trump's direct family. Not to mention Trump saying directly that he would have a hand in the deal and expressing concerns about the sale to Netflix. In a past life, all of this would be a major scandal, but on the Trump scale, it barely cracks the top 10.
There's a reason the dollar values have gotten so extreme: if Paramount can pull this off, they (and by extension, Trump) will have direct control over a huge percentage of the media consumed by Americans. There are a variety of extremely wealthy nations who would love nothing more than to do away with American democracy as the most direct path to both solidifying ultimate power at home as well as locking in favourable deals with the US.
I mean, it's not like the false dichotomy between the Democrats and Republicans has been any form of real democracy since Reagan allowed governments to be bought by the highest bidder, but this could shunt the runaway train down a track that is impossible to come back from. And many Americans have been so blinded by wedge-issue politics that they're not just apathetic to this stuff, they're actively cheering it.
As noted, it takes some doing to make Netflix the good guys (or, rather, the less worse guys), but this gang of despotic criminals and oligarchs somehow manages it. It's no coincidence that bottomless cash has suddenly appeared to back a company valued generously at 1/4 of the cash they've somehow magicked up.
The Trumpiness of it all more or less guarantees this will go to Paramount, and by extension become yet another Trump mouthpiece via the Ellisons, MBS, and Trump's direct family. Not to mention Trump saying directly that he would have a hand in the deal and expressing concerns about the sale to Netflix. In a past life, all of this would be a major scandal, but on the Trump scale, it barely cracks the top 10.
There's a reason the dollar values have gotten so extreme: if Paramount can pull this off, they (and by extension, Trump) will have direct control over a huge percentage of the media consumed by Americans. There are a variety of extremely wealthy nations who would love nothing more than to do away with American democracy as the most direct path to both solidifying ultimate power at home as well as locking in favourable deals with the US.
I mean, it's not like the false dichotomy between the Democrats and Republicans has been any form of real democracy since Reagan allowed governments to be bought by the highest bidder, but this could shunt the runaway train down a track that is impossible to come back from. And many Americans have been so blinded by wedge-issue politics that they're not just apathetic to this stuff, they're actively cheering it.
sburns
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Gotta love Jon Hamm
Sochi
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Finally watching Plur1bus as almost all episodes are avail.
What a weird but captivating show. Definitely recommend.
What a weird but captivating show. Definitely recommend.
410001661
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The Walking Dead
Fear of the Walking Dead
Dead City
Daryl Dixon
True Detectives
Shrinking
Your Friends & Neighbors
The Waterfront
Tires (my mindless travel series - that and Letterkenny are my airplane series)
Task
Black Rabbit
Man on the Inside
The Morning Show
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
Masters of the Sky
1917 (excellent movie)
Winter is a time for me to read (my recommendations)
The Toronto Book of the Dead
The Civil War of 1812 - Alan Taylor
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dubliners - James Joyce (cannot say enough about this classic - read this last year in the deer stand)
Fear of the Walking Dead
Dead City
Daryl Dixon
True Detectives
Shrinking
Your Friends & Neighbors
The Waterfront
Tires (my mindless travel series - that and Letterkenny are my airplane series)
Task
Black Rabbit
Man on the Inside
The Morning Show
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
Masters of the Sky
1917 (excellent movie)
Winter is a time for me to read (my recommendations)
The Toronto Book of the Dead
The Civil War of 1812 - Alan Taylor
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dubliners - James Joyce (cannot say enough about this classic - read this last year in the deer stand)
As an old school roleplayer, I'm really enjoying the adult animated series "The Mighty Nein." Half the fun is trying to place what character classes/archetypes they're trying to portray. some are dead easy, while others have flavouring that doesn't seem to fit what I think they should be.
sburns
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Finished up S4 of this:
Good series. The 60's in America were something else.
Good series. The 60's in America were something else.
We enjoyed that very much too. Loved the first guy that played Malcolm X.Finished up S4 of this:
Good series. The 60's in America were something else.
