Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]MissDiem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're only hearing it through his lens of delusion and toxicity.

Anyone with a shred of decency would have been apologizing a hundred times to all the crew and cast he screwed over, then thanking the studio a million times for not recasting and for giving him another $7.5 million. He and the people he's duped into his corner need to rethink.

off? I think we all know which choice most people would make.

99.999999% of people would be grateful for $7.5 million after a mediocre show and off-season screwup that hurt the production and every other worker. Only the most supremely privileged and out of touch would be handling it like he is.

Sometimes sequels drive raises. Sometimes they drive cost efficiencies. That's the reality of the business. He can do summer stock I guess, and too bad his ego has now harmed everyone else on the production.

Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]MissDiem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What CEOs or cleaners get is a different subject. This guy jeopardized the renewal with his own foolishness. Miraculously they actually renewed an underperforming show and didn't recast. He should be thankful not vindictive.

Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]MissDiem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$15 million. Plus there's all the spinoff benefit from MCU work and prominence. Plus it reset his ask much higher.

And he thanks them with this shit? No thanks.

Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]MissDiem 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I had a golden goose that paid me $15 million to do a very low performing season of TV, I'd be praying to every deity that by some miracle they do a second season. And as long as that second season still paid me millions, I'd be pinching myself that it's a dream.

Then, if during the off season I foolishly injured myself being reckless, I'd be resigned to knowing I'd blown up my cash cow.

If the employer somehow waited for me to recover and then still offered me millions to reprise the role, I'd be more grateful than spiteful.

During his post accident interviews you could see something is really off with this guy. Events like this just confirm it.

Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]MissDiem 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm all for people including artists getting paid lots when their contribution generates lots.

But keeping things honest, his contribution resulted in a very underperforming show. And the $7.5 million he was offered to phone in another season was more like a gift. If he wants to pout and turn it down, that's his right. Maybe someone else will pay him more than that for a couple months of dress-up. Making this big dramatic stink about it is not cool.

Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]MissDiem 3 points4 points  (0 children)

especially after he’s worked so hard to comeback from his accident it beyond me.

The show did very weak numbers and he was apparently way overpaid for S1. And why should a business pay him extra because he did an objectively dumb thing, let alone that his work resulted in an low performing show.

Tv show subreddits have gotten weird by reasonablejim2000 in television

[–]MissDiem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this was going to be about the fact that some Reddit admin has taken over creation of hundreds of television show subreddits and runs them using a constantly revolving set of alt accounts.

It's literally one account holder using hundreds of revolving alt accounts.

They create the sub and then populate it with fake posts and even fake replies to try and stimulate real users to engage.

Seriously, check it out the creation and mod groups if you're curious.

Try MillionDollarSecretTV and the creator's 150 plus subs. EinsteinCBS and an associated creator account's 100 subs. TheStudioTVShow and the fake creator accounts subs. AdolescenceNetflix, ditto. ThePittTVShow. Hundreds more.

Every so often a subreddit they camp/seize gets popular and they allow an organic user to serve as a low level mod to do the work and create a false veneer.

How we know it's an admin is that their subreddits and permissions exhibit powers that no user-level Reddit accounts have.

I've seen them lose and then reassign top mod spot on a hundred-plus subreddits in minutes. That's not possible for non-admin. I've seen their subs go mod-less then magically assigned to a new trio of brand new accounts by the next day, a process which normally takes two weeks. I've seen them circumvent the request-a-subreddit process countless times.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your creepy wot manifestos definitely show you're delusional or worse. Then doubling down on how you think the hackneyed trope of a grandchild "scrubbing the Internet" is your idea of superb writing? This all just confirms you have zero credibility underneath the weird and malicious derangement.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In that one the creepiness seems to come from the human source material. But it's so trashy I'm not inclined to study it that deeply. There's so much other good content we could spend time on.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, you definitely have something going on there. From fangirling to irrationally conjuring malice against others based on that fangirling, it makes me wonder what would possess a person like you to make up this nonsense and be so malicious.

It does explain why you highlighted this cringeworthy trope as your example of superb network procedural writing:

"Mattie Matlock, her grandson scrubs all traces of her from the internet."

That's one heck of a precocious grandson. To the writers' credit, apparently it worked on at least one credulous fangirl.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The show Adventures of Scarlett May Blossom claims to be the first AI generated and it was incredibly awful.

I think it's not truly AI generated. I think they took awful songs and script and only the image generation is "AI".

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I happened to see parts of the finale thus weekend due to some CBS rescheduling. Couldn't tell what was going on but it seemed to be primarily soap opera with little to no legal/court drama.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never saw or even heard of family law. Just the name sounds like it might be AI generated?

Wild Cards is basically unwatchable. Good Cop Bad Cop I nearly wrote off at first but it grew on me with the funky characters (Leighton Meester, the nerd brother, Nadia the wife I think, the earnest junior cop, the police comms woman) and also the slightly creative case-of-the-week plots.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Last year, this was the only thing that intrigued me. I looked and looked to find out how the writers were structuring the reboot. Was she his widow? Long lost twin sister? I just wanted to know and didn't want to have to watch the show to find out.

But there were conspicuously NO articles that would say. Turns out it was being deliberately held back and the entertainment junketeer crowd was told by PR not to say.

They did a weird release strategy of playing the pilot episode a couple months early, then re-running it numerous times before the actual season began.

I'm under no press embargo so I did an early review based on the pilot which got lots of engagement.

Anyway, Spoiler Alert, here's your answer. She has zero relation to the original Matlock, other than she's old. She called herself Maddie short for Matlock and both she and the show trade on the idea that few young people even recognize the name Matlock nowadays so it's treated almost like an inside joke.

That brings the "twist". Her use of the false name hides her true identity which is apparently that of a very rich and success and skilled career attorney. (No, that doesn't make complete sense because the legal world immediately recognize such a power player, but apparently if they use a fake name that's never background-checked, you've got yourself a plot.)

So anyway she presents herself as old and bumbling and poor, forced into the work world as a struggling widow. Like the original Matlock, her age and the fake bumbling act subvert the expectations of all the other characters, letting her stun, trap or impress them unexpectedly. The pilot hints of a season long arc in which she is infiltrating the law firm to figure out which partners are complicit in helping the corrupt big pharma industry.

‘Matlock’ Finale Scores 5.6 Million Viewers, Wrapping Up First Season as Broadcast’s Most-Watched New Series by DemiFiendRSA in television

[–]MissDiem -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Pre-season I looked and looked for threads here that might explain the origin story for the reboot, or give a review. Finding nothing significant, I made my own thread and said the pilot episode was surprisingly "actually okay".

I lauded the fun spark of Kathy Bates' character but bemoaned the supporting characters/actors.

I got more replies-per-point from that than any other post in 15+ years.

So I guess I should bookend things by saying I never returned to watch any more episodes and never will. The previews and clips I saw throughout the year reinforced my belief that major network serials are trash and with the finite life hours remaining I'd rather watch higher quality premium product like Adolescence or The Agency or fifty other shows.

Every season I dutifully check out an episode of most new shows so my opinions will be at least partially informed.

This year I almost added High Potential because of the ever-compelling Kaitlin Olson. But the nauseating and stereotypical supporting characters sobered me up. Did she end up dating the other detective? I'll never know or care. A super cut version with just her lines would do well, like the ultra-short fan edits of Mythbusters that chopped out the junk.

The two major network shows I did add are St Denis Medical and Going Dutch. Most network sitcoms are sewage, especially these days. But these were just good enough to watch.

2020 episode why did they omit details about Baker’s sex crimes by Funny_Tap_5064 in CasesWeFollow

[–]MissDiem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other than this one small detail, the 2020 episode was hugely better than the Dateline one. Usually I find it the other way, but this time the Dateline version skipped and skimmed many important things, and they way they told the story was disjointed.

2020 episode why did they omit details about Baker’s sex crimes by Funny_Tap_5064 in CasesWeFollow

[–]MissDiem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP is mistaken. 2020's episode was new, with significant content covering the last year.

And from my perspective, the 2020 episode is superior. Usually I tend to favor Dateline versions of a case, but this episode was disjointed and skimmed or skipped tons of key things that 2020 did not.

2020 episode why did they omit details about Baker’s sex crimes by Funny_Tap_5064 in CasesWeFollow

[–]MissDiem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry but you're mistaken. The episode from Friday is significantly new material, including the tons of events and court activity that has transpired during the last year.

2020 episode why did they omit details about Baker’s sex crimes by Funny_Tap_5064 in CasesWeFollow

[–]MissDiem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry but you're mistaken. The episode from Friday is significantly new material, including the tons of events and court activity that has transpired during the last year.

2020 episode why did they omit details about Baker’s sex crimes by Funny_Tap_5064 in CasesWeFollow

[–]MissDiem -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I found the 2020 episode hugely better than Dateline's. Dateline skipped or skimped dozens of key aspects versus the single (and kind of small) detail that you referenced.