Some good news from Netflix this morning as they teased a little short photo promo for “Umbrella Academy“ season 3.
In a year of bad news, we have been treated to two pieces of good news. First the second season of this great show premiered in July and now as the year closes, we’re being told of the next one coming.
David Fincher makes the call!
This quote from David Fincher will come as a sad piece of information for anyone who is a fan of the program MINDHUNTER on Netflix.
It would appear that the program is done. Kapootsky.
The shame of this is that the program was amazing, and two seasons we got a melodramatic tale about how the FBI change to hunt serial killers in the 1970s, and then the added suspense of watching the Btk killer evolve in the second season gave hopes for an amazing third.
But now we’re just left with two seasons, two completely amazing pieces of entertainment that can stand the test of time because they’re timeless, capitalizing on the newfound fame of true crime dramas and the nostalgic steel for the 1970s and 1980s.
Viewers and fans could’ve been doored several more seasons, although the program is so detail oriented perhaps it was difficult to make. Fincher seems to be overwhelmed but I’m out of work it actually took.
So yes people will now lament the loss of this program, as well be. One of the greatest. But, we have two amazing seasons to binge over and over again.
As far as the Btk killer? The rest was history
People don’t have theaters but they have the theater of their minds and memories..
With most of life staying shut down and less productions occurring, two shining stars have emerged as the top Netflix shows of the summer of the coronavirus.
The full listing of the top the shows here
Two top show of the summer was rightfully THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY season 2, which felt far more strange and bizarre but yet superior and fun to season 1.
The other notable show? THE OFFICE.
Steve Carrell’s classic program back with its humor .. and it got brand new fans amongst a new age group and demographic .
Retro is king during lockdowns
Netflix issued an apology Thursday after thousands signed a petition demanding the immediate removal of the controversial French film “Cuties” from the streaming platform.
The movie, about an 11-year-old who rebels against her family and joins a “free-spirited dance crew,” is accused in the online campaign of sexualizing young girls “for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles.” Originally titled “Mignonnes,” the project premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won a jury award for directing.
Netflix said
We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for Mignonnes/Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description.
The film is about the over sexualization if girls in dance .. a conversation that man say needs to be had but not with a hyper sexualized cover depicting girls in a sultry setting..
This is how one Twitter user pointed out the differences of the original cover into what Netflix decided to do:
MoffettNathanson arrived at its conclusion by surveying more than 500 Americans from among a demographically representative sample, and then asking the 430 who said they had access to Netflix to list up to five of their favorite programs from the service..
two shows were named by more than 10 percent of the survey responders: Stranger Things (13 percent) and ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (10 percent)
It’s over…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lori Laughlin won’t appear on the upcoming fifth season of Netflix’s popular family sitcom Fuller House..
Laughlin, who played Aunt Becky on the original Full House and portrayed her again in a guest-starring role on Fuller House, appeared in 13 of the new show’s 57 episodes.
The fifth season of Fuller House, which hasn’t started filming yet, is set to premiere on Netflix this fall. Sources told THR that the show’s production won’t be impacted by the drama surrounding Laughlin.
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Georgia lawmakers are pushing for a tax on digital video, books, music and video games…
That means residents of the states would Netflix, Chill, and pay … they would pay more for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Kindle e-books, iTunes music, Spotify and internet phone services.
Those who are already connected would pay the price: They’d bear the cost of the 4 percent tax, but its benefits would go toward rural residents who lack high-speed access to online products..
And who, you may ask, also wants the tax?
LOBBYISTS!
Nearly 60 lobbyists for cable, TV and cellphone companies are making an argument that it’s only fair that every service be taxed equally. Currently, various taxes and fees cover cable TV and phones but not satellite TV and internet video.
The resistance comes from legislators who oppose new taxes, consumers who would pay the tax and Dish TV, which doesn’t stand to benefit from government funding of rural internet since it already provides satellite-based online access to those areas. Before a similar digital tax proposal failed last year, Dish TV ran TV ads urging viewers to “Stop the Georgia TV tax!”
Meanwhile if you, as a viewer and service purchaser, ends up paying taxes for viewing hit bingeworthy shows, consider this:
TWEETS THAT TWEET FOR THEMSELVES..
I’ve seen a lot of talk about Ted Bundy’s alleged hotness and would like to gently remind everyone that there are literally THOUSANDS of hot men on the service — almost all of whom are not convicted serial murderers— Netflix US (@netflix) January 28, 2019
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where— Netflix US (@netflix) January 28, 2019
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Last Thursday, on the anniversary of Bundy’s death, the streaming giant released director Joe Berlinger’s four-part docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, to a captive and eager audience. Two days later, Berlinger’s Bundy biopic starring Zac Efron, titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, premiered to a divided audience at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival…
And since then the program has garnered millions of views on Netflix and conversation threads on the socials.. many people believe what women said then: He is “hot”..
In the 70s women were killed.. in the 2000teens it seems “cool” to call murderers hot again.
Make a red hat for that..
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Netflix has removed the second episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj from its service in Saudi Arabia after receiving a request from the country’s Communications and Information Technology Commission, reports the Financial Times.
The episode focused on America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year.
NO…
Maybe?
Netflix doesn’t give ratings.. but BIRD BOX is so popular it decided to come out of the ratings closet and tell some potentially tall tales…
The streaming service on Friday said more than 45 million “accounts” have watched the Sandra Bullock-led film in its first week of release, the “best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film,” the company boasted in a Tweet….
Rebecca Keegan of The Hollywood Reporter questioned the value of Netflix’s data in the absence of further context.
“Does Susanne Bier’s agent use this data as leverage on her next film? How does a traditional studio considering her for a project view it?” Keegan asked on Twitter.
Bier directed “Bird Box.”
Exactly how Netflix qualifies what counts as a viewing is another question. Does the figure account for those who accidentally play the film from an auto-play option? Does it log “viewers” who only watch a few seconds or the entire film?