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what was the pitch for Quibi? "It's Youtube Red from 2014, but !"

but ____________________!

whatever the pitch for quibi was, it did not take into account a world in which the vast majority of urban people are stuck indoors for months

otoh, i probably am glued to my cell phone even more usual these days

the pitch for quibi was "we don't have to pay union minimums if the episodes are under 15 minutes"

Holy shit, Quibi is *exclusively* for your phone?! That is, you can't watch it on your TV or computer even if you want to? Well, fuck that. That's like publishing a novel that can only be read on Facebook.

https://www.tor.com/2020/04/10/apple-tv-plus-original-shows-free-limited-time-for-all-mankind-snoopy-servant-watch/

Apple Makes Some of its Original Shows Available to Watch For Free

Holding off until they actually pay me

*highly* recommend For All Mankind esp if you are a space/Apollo nerd

Is it related to the doc of the same name?

Holy shit, Quibi is *exclusively* for your phone?! That is, you can't watch it on your TV or computer even if you want to? Well, fuck that. That's like publishing a novel that can only be read on Facebook.

If you have a Chromecast or similar device it's pretty easy to cast from your phone to your tv.

If they put up a 10 foot wall, I'm going to get an 11 foot ladder and climb somewhere else.

this Apple TV+ free period is great! so far we’ve given up on for all mankind and servant

Lol

Mythic Quest was in my top ten of the year but I don’t think apple is giving that one away? Super-funny right out of the gate.

was is

For All Mankind had an interesting concept and first episode then went to shit faster than anything I can remember.

I saw the first Mythic Quest, was ok.

Little America is very much worth your time.

i like Servant, it's absurd

I don't really need another service full of stuff I think I should watch but don't actually watch

Well guess what? It's full of stuff you'll have no impulse to watch!

I think you might enjoy Mythic Quest, given the subject matter. Or find it infuriating.

it's... not very good? I mean, i finished it but imagine if sunny and silicon valley had a very boring baby and ubisoft did interstitials

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/media/disney-splash-edited/index.html

They covered up Daryl Hannah's butt in Splash, erasing one of my formative pre-pubescent sexual memories.

xp good description imo

the Plot Against America is v v good

waiting to hear if it improves on the book's ending

quibi doesn’t have tv casting support yet. it also doesn’t let you take screenshots.

Peacock launches today, goes wide in July
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/peacock-streaming-lineup-free-tv-shows-movies-1234580315/

i could absolutely not get into that book at the time, maybe I will try the series.

Tales from the Loop is pretty good btw, in a twilight zone, black mirror lite sort of way. It's kind of nice to not have something relentlessly grim and dark.

I love Cate Blancett dearly, but I gotta say, not terribly eager to watch this new Hulu series where she plays Phyllis Schlafly. the woman was a fucking ghoul, plain and simple, case closed.

ditto

otm

me either but I hear it's very good

her rictus grin is very on point, i will try it.

not a fair comparison but i was also leery of watching Vice because I did not want to see Dick Cheney humanized in any way. but i don't know if it does that or not

Losing my fucking MIND at this Quibi show where actual Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman obsessed with her golden arm pic.twitter.com/rSfqCv75SG

— Zach Raffio (@zachraffio) April 15, 2020

incredible.

Watched the first ep of “Run” on HBO
v watchable so far & ridiculously horny.
Phoebe Waller Bridge is exec producer & guest stars in later ep.
Domnhall Gleeson is great too, but he is great in pretty much everything even if it’s garbage (cf: About Time)

Yeah that was enjoyable.

Devs finale was excellent. LIke the Leftovers, and Twin Peaks: the Return, I can't even believe someone greenlit this for television and paid for it, it's so fucking crazy.

Devs was (no season 2, right?) a great show, but...

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I just don't buy that you could watch your future self and then just sleepwalk through what you watched perfectly when the time came. I don't even think I could re-create what I saw in the machine even if I was TRYING to make it happen. All very trippy to think about though.

Combining the ideas of devs and Wolfram's latest messianic proclamations with some stay-at-home levels of consumption has been fun.

on quibi i wrote this almost a year ago and i’m interested to see if my prognostication was stoopid or smart

this profile of Meg Whitman (eBay, Hewlett Packard) is off the back of launching the start-up Quibi – whose value proposition is 'high quality snackable video', aiming to become 'the Netflix of the mobile generation'.

She's co-chairman with entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenburg. He provides the entertainment contacts, she's responsible for getting the finance, producing a high-profile investment roster of 21st Century Fox, Viacom, Alibaba, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.

In some respects the logic is sound: she points out people are spending 4-5 hours a day on their phones, but average session length is 6.5 minutes. Twitter and youtube are filling that space.

I'm not convinced - people pay for high quality when there is an investment of their time involved. here it's filling the cracks. text-based apps like twitter are perfect to pick up and put down, music videos on youtube can get a quick rewatch, but you don't have to stick to the end. Part of the point is that you don't know when your time poor snack break might need to suddenly end.

Who else has paid $3.33 for the Night Flight app and what have you watched so far? It has a LOT of weird stuff, like having the cool video store inside your house + old eps of NF may be the most soothing thing on earth next to time lapse photography of plants or Planet Earth.

wow I didn't know that existed, just checked out the website. I'll absolutely sign up for that later today. Decent price and shitloads of stuff I'd watch while stoned.

Did not know about Night Flight app! I have like twenty burned DVDs of old Night Flight material that I incidentally started digging into the other day so this news is up my alley.

that fucking Quibi golden arm show

xp to stuff you just don't care about

the start-up Quibi – whose value proposition is 'high quality snackable video', aiming to become 'the Netflix of the mobile generation'.

i’ve just watched a quibi sitcom about dan harmon’s sex doll, can we start 2020 again please