Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021.
CEOs like Bob Iger and David Zaslav seem willing to lose money during the writers and actors strikes. Why?
The company is finally completing its pivot away from shipping DVDs — and it’s not asking for its discs back either.
Can romance’s fantasy of wealth survive the labor rights movement? Let’s ask, uh, this frothy K-drama.
A chat with Charlie Brooker about AI, creativity, and why tech can be like growing an extra limb.
Dude, where’s my show?
Netflix set out to become HBO. Now it’s going to stream actual HBO shows. Goodbye, streaming wars?
Welcome to FAST: The free, ad-supported, streaming television bargain bin.
Netflix’s The Diplomat asks what high-powered political games look like when they’re played by a woman with impostor syndrome.
Netflix and A24’s Beef is astounding, anti-ambient TV.
Ceaseless watcher, gaze upon this wretched thing.
AMC’s new plan is ... good?
Another Big Tech founder (mostly) moves on.
Streaming isn’t going away, but go-go spending is going, going, gone.
We bid adieu to moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix.
We just want to see annoying rich people sent to an emotional gulag.
“Elon Musk is the bravest, most creative person on the planet.”
A pair of real-life murders bookend this series starring Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett.
The new CEO helped kick off the streaming era when he was the old CEO. Now Wall Street wants something else.
Inconvenient history, long buried, finally gets the spotlight in Netflix’s Descendant.
Netflix’s new cheaper subscription has ads, but it doesn’t have all of its shows and movies.
True crime has made huge strides in centering the victim. But we keep getting series like the Netflix docudrama.
How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company.
Are the tech layoffs an anomaly or a warning sign?
A (mostly) post-pandemic update.
Purple Hearts tries to romanticize the ideological middle. It actually glorifies something much uglier.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel rolls out as the streaming industry reconsiders ... everything.
Netflix answers some questions. There are plenty left.
One chart that tells you a lot about the state of the streaming service.
Facebook knows it has a TikTok problem. TV and streamers do, too.
Netflix’s The Parisian Agency is a luxury real estate show featuring a family that actually gets along.
Netflix is losing subscribers. Does that mean Netflix has a problem or that streaming has a problem?
The Disney+ show is scored by subversive Egyptian rap of the Arab Spring.
Does Netflix even care that Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature is rife with transphobic TERF ideology?
Ads were supposed to be on their way out, replaced by subscription money. Now Netflix, Disney, and everyone else is learning to live with them.
Bluey opened up my imagination and made the most boring part of parenting fun.
The pandemic took away my weak ties. I’m so glad they’re back.
Reed Hastings used to have streaming to himself. That’s over now.
Amazon isn’t competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help.