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Why the first episode of House of Cards Season 2 was so damn smart

February 22nd, 2014 No comments

Serious spoilers here. Seriously…

Netflix is starting to popularize the available-all-at-once seasons of TV shows with its original programming like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. There’s an inherent issue with these shows however, where discussing them is difficult when they first come out (and are most likely to be in the popular mindset). With a traditional TV release format (one a week for 24 weeks), there’s always a new episode to watch and talk about at the “water cooler” at work. However, when shows are immediately available to consume at once, different people have different amounts of availability to binge watch a show.
You probably know this already, but it brings me to why the first episode of the second season of House of Cards is so well written.
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Netflix, Disney, and Apple Video Streaming

December 6th, 2012 No comments

Regarding this news story: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/04/netflix-strikes-licensing-agreement-with-disney-will-be-exclusi/

I was talking with a friend (Jon Badeen, @badeen on twitter (http://badeen.com)) during one of our NSCoder meetups when I read this news. He brought up an excellent point: Apple’s streaming service must be far away. Unless Apple completed dropped the ball, would Disney be signing an exclusive contract with Netflix if an Apple service was on its way? I really would hope not, considering how close their relationship is. On the other hand different news sites keep reporting on how Apple execs (notably Tim Cook) are talking about how movie/tv streaming is a big focus for them. Maybe they’re more focused on TV shows, but Disney has a decent number of those as well. In any case, I’m not looking for anything from Apple in the near future (although they do tend to surprise).

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