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kleinbl00  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TV Eats Itself: Welcome to the end of the Golden Era--Grantland

My instinct is to be contrarian and disagree, but at the same time the creativity is bleeding out of the studios. It was bound to happen - once you build up an expensive distribution platform, you can't make risky choices about how to monetize it. So the interesting stuff ends up in cheaper channels.

Not gonna lie. A substantial portion of my income this year is mixing for Youtube. That which is not being paid for by Youtube is being paid for by major multinational corporations for Youtube. I've got a 72-channel mix for a Youtube video hot in the other room right now.

Dunno. Orange is the New Black isn't half bad. That Kevin Spacey thing is shit. Hemlock Grove is crap, and I used to hang out with Brian McGreevy regularly. If Netflix can stop shooting for "slightly better than Lillyhammer" and aim for "slightly better than Treme" they'll have something. HBO wasn't shit until OZ so it'll happen.