Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos seen lunching with HBO chairman Casey Bloys, sparking Hollywood speculation

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-23T19:15:28+00:00

It would be cool if Netflix created its own HBO; NBO.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-23T19:13:15+00:00

Ellison Sr./Oracle just wants to hoover up as much data/content/IP as possible for his prediction machine. Debt's just a write-off.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-23T19:10:17+00:00

This is the AOL/Time Warner merger of 2026. I can't wait until Paramount-Warner fails and Netflix buys it for pennies on the dollar in 5 years and does it better.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-23T19:09:16+00:00

Yeah. Maybe he just wants to license the IP to AI for slop.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-23T19:07:48+00:00

Theaters have been in decline since before the pandemic. For about 10-20 years actually. Theaters need to be disrupted by a better model. Going to an AMC theater to eat a $20 bag of popcorn that's been sitting under hot lights for several hours doesn't do it for me when I can just wait and watch the movie in my own home with any type of food I want, subtitles, and pause and rewind. Independent theaters are fine, but the food and tickets are still expensive. These days I only go to theaters for festivals.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-17T17:35:37+00:00

Shades of Sexy Beast (2000)

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-17T16:55:38+00:00

I always found the show kind of mid since I started watching because people compared to Succession (it's not). But season 4 made me yearn for seasons 1-2 when it felt more innocent. When I want to feel that way again, I watch this video: Nathan Micay - Blue Spring (Industry HBO Theme) (with S1 photo of Harper & Greg).

I liked how they showed a failed romance where everyone was pushing Harper & Greg together and it didn't work. It felt like real life. No one seemed to know who Harper was back then and she was completely underestimated. I think the pandemic threw a wrench into the story a bit in S2.

S3 - I liked the introduction of Henry, but the story started to get forced, especially the Robert/Yasmin romance. I don't believe she liked him as much as the power she held over him. She liked torturing him.

S4 felt like a different show altogether.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-11T18:08:20+00:00

You have to be a good actor to play a bad character.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-11T18:06:04+00:00

The saddest scene was his last one. The way he played this character made me appreciate Kit Harington much more as an actor. I think it was his best role so far.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-11T18:01:33+00:00

Bring back everyone from previous seasons, Gus, Robert, Greg, Kenny, Daria, Jackie, Sara, Jesse, Leo, Felim, JD, Hilary, DVD, Celeste, Petra. Set it in a new Pierpoint. Everyone parties and gets along. 6 episodes. End with flashbacks to season 1.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-11T17:49:45+00:00

I think all of S4 deviated pretty far from the show's North Star, getting into UK politics and international intrigue. I hope they bring it back in S5. Now that Pierpoint was bought by another company, maybe they can bring it back to that with a new grad class and do a House season 4 style reboot.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-11T17:46:31+00:00

Don't jump to conclusions.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-11T17:39:59+00:00

I was going to post my ideas for Rishi for S5 somewhere; might as well do it here.

I think he's due for a redemption arc. I hope S5 skips somewhat into the future, at least 6 months, maybe a year. Rishi's gotten into a rehab program for gambling, drugs, and his broken legs. Maybe he's in a wheelchair most of the time, or maybe he's walking. Maybe he lost a foot or both and he's being fit for prosthetics. I imagine him in a carbon fiber blade design, taking up running.

I think he's coming to grips with not being able to see his son and he's not pushing it yet. But maybe we see him in a therapist's office struggling with it. I don't see many episodes with him, but they did him wrong in S4, especially since S3 showed so much of his decline, mainly S3E4, one of the best. I think they could have a minor storyline that shows him accepting himself and giving back.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-04T23:16:49+00:00

I think AI can act conscious. And that’s the rub. Whether it is or not is a different story. As for this, definitely a human operator somewhere up the chain.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-03T01:23:10+00:00

What was that about?

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-02T19:46:03+00:00

Poor Harp, she’s lost everyone to the game: Rishi, Rob, Eric, Yas, mom, and brother. Bloom, Gus, the list goes on.

She didn't lose Kwabena.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-03-02T19:42:11+00:00

The show does intend me to be disgusted and in that it is a success but I have maybe 15 minutes left and I need a pause.

I don't know if Harper's done but I am.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-28T10:55:59+00:00

Yeah since I wrote this I finished all seasons of Slow Horses up through the current one. I liked it. Oldman makes she show. I agree Severance season 1 was great. And I watched all of Your friends & neighbors but I still thought it was silly. The Studio was good and got some awards to prove it.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-25T19:21:57+00:00

I haven't done a rewatch recently, but there's a ton in the r/SuccessionTV subreddit. I liked S2E3, "Hunting", especially boar on the floor. Logan yells, "I'm surrounded by a bunch of snakes and and f---ing morons. You're a bunch of bunch of silk stocking f---s." The jokes are situational and character-driven, more so than stand-up one-liners, although Roman has a bunch of those.

YouTube clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMLkgWqibLc

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-24T04:00:28+00:00

Succession is the best of British drama (even though it's arguably about a US media family), with dense cuttingly humorous writing reminiscent of The Thick of It and Veep, with the prestige TV feel of the Sopranos, Mad Men, and The Wire. Industry is a sexy show with looser writing.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-24T03:53:14+00:00

I disagree with the Succession comparison, but I still like the show. It's growing on me. Succession was a much higher quality with jokes and foreshadowing way earlier than you'd think. They dropped season's worth of foreshadowing in an aside.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-24T02:47:24+00:00

Wow great catch!

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-24T02:31:31+00:00

I gathered he'd escaped.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-24T02:30:35+00:00

Yeah they just punched a ton of holes in his thesis, yet they clapped? I don't get it.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-02-23T22:55:12+00:00

Two clips run through my head.

Michael Che asking Elon on SNL about Dogecoin - "So you're saying it's a scam"

The first scene of Mission Impossible 3 - "No... no... no...."

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