the first time you bounce me through two dozen servers during auth
before letting me into my stuff, I’m out.
If I was trying to turn Paramount into a like right-leaning culture war friendly entertainment company, I would have given Taylor Sheridan whatever he wanted, and changed the name to "Paramount, brought to you by Taylor Sheridan".
I remember when this first started, I thought to myself, how are you going to bring back 80's style American jingoism with only one director doing it, then I find out it was worse then that, because they drove that one director away.
I covered the competing bids when this was still an open question: https://philippdubach.com/posts/not-logan-roy-netflix-vs.-pa...
If they wanted the policial platforms and had offered to buy them from Warner as standalone for a tenth of the cost Warner would have snapped their hand off.
They need the IP for scale. That is what this is about.
Would make my eve to hear any folks who are going to cancel in protest of this continued consolidation.
Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win
