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Top 25 series for 2022: Rising above the corporate glut
December 20, 2022In the wake of the near collapse of the major streaming services in 2022, and parallel to the wave of retrenchment and belt-tightening, series still trended toward homogenization.
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The business of streaming 2022: ‘The one where the whole thing nearly collapsed’
December 6, 2022The Big Three streaming companies, Disney+, Netflix and HBO, have all sustained losses in both subscribers and market valuation over the last year.
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‘Bad Sisters’ is very good!
December 2, 2022After Thanksgiving—it’s the perfect time to reconsider what should be done about the painfully obnoxious right-wing relative who casts a pall over family festivities!
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‘Ms. Marvel’: Politicizing the Multiverse and rendering it asunder
August 1, 2022This is a truly remarkable series and shows how the various “verses,” Facebook’s Meta- and Marvel’s Multi-, can be a space for an examination of social, cultural, and political fault lines rather than simply a commercial...
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The year in global streaming: Welcome to the Om(n)i(cron)verse
December 22, 2021The need to produce constant weekly product to match streaming competitors reached a level of frenzy this year.
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