Cordkillers 398 - What High School Did You Go To?
Netflix has a new game, but it's not the games you've already heard about from Netflix! Roku gets a big endorsement for a feature you might know about. FX to bring back Justified with Olyphant and Quentin Tarantino. All that and more on Cordkillers!
This week on It's Spoilerin' Time: The Righteous Gemstones (209), Raised By Wolves (205), Miami Vice (220, "Payback")
When we return on March 14: Picard (201-202), Raised By Wolves (206-207)
CordKillers: What High School Did You Go To?
Recorded: February 28 2022
Guest: None
Intro Video
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Primary Target
Netflix says its new trivia show might ‘push more people into games’
Interactive shows on Netflix: ‘Cat Burglar’ is here
- Netflix has added its next "Bandersnatch" like interactive story called "Cat Burglar." Andits even from from Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.
- It's a cartoon in the mid-20th century style. And unlike Bandersnatch you don't control the choices of the characters. You answer questions and your answers decide whether a character makes it to he next story or not. They have three lives. It has multiple storylines with 6 core endings and each play through should be different. It takes about 15 minutes to play.
- It's separate from Netflix's "games" too. Those are available as individual apps on mobile that you log into with your Netflix account. Cat Burglar is available in the Netflix app on almost every platform.
- Netflix VP of Comedy and Interactive Andy Weil told Protocol, “There's more than just TV and film on Netflix. You can actually interact. So if you're interested, there are games.”
- So... is this part of Netflix's next brilliant move to stay ahead of the competition or a case of having a hammer and looking for a nail to hit it with?
How to Watch
3 Reasons Roku Is the Go-To Streamer for Vacation Rental Owners
- CNET awarded its editors choice for streaming devices to Roku in part because it's the best option for people operating Airbnb and other types of vacation rentals.
- There are some obvious reasons like price and ease of use. But the key for the vacation rental market is Guest mode.
- This mode lets a Roku user sign in with their own logins on each app and then automatically sign them out when they leave, either automatically by setting their checkout date or manually.
What to Watch
Academy Won’t Air All Categories Live for 94th Oscars Telecast
Upset Over Oscar Changes? Too Late, They’ve Been Happening for Years
- The 94th Academy Awards broadcast will not all be live. The ceremony will begin one hour before the live broadcast with full presentations for documentary short, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, animated short, live action short and sound.
- Then clips from those presentations will be added to the live broadcast once it begins. The idea is that the viewer won't notice as these are inserted seamlessly. The Tony Awards does a similar thing for its technical achievement awards.
- The idea is to allow more time for comedy, film clips and musical numbers. Which is supposed to make people more interested to tune in. That's similar to the strategy the Grammy's takes where it awards the bulk of its awards in a live stream and only about 10 on the actual broadcast, focusing instead on performances but the artists.
- This year’s Oscars are hosted by Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes, on March 27.
Quentin Tarantino in Talks to Direct Episodes of FX’s ‘Justified’ Revival Starring Timothy Olyphant
- FX is bringing back Justified as a Limited Series called Justified: City Primeval, inspired by Elmore Leonard's novel “City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit.” Quentin Tarantino is in early talks to direct a couple of episodes. Tarantino adapted Elmore Leonard's book Rum Punch into the movie Jackie Brown.
Marvel's Netflix shows are coming to Disney+, but only in Canada for now
- It shouldn't really be a shock that the Marvel shows that are leaving Netflix on March 1st are going to show up on Disney +. But it may surprise you to know that the first place that is happening is in Canada on March 16th. So it looks like Daredevil, Jessica Jones and the rest will end up on Disney+, even with their more mature ratings. When that will happen is not yet known.
Eyes On
Brian: Severance
Tom: Severance
On the Lookout: The Legend of Vox Machina
Front Lines
Discovery Ended 2021 With 22 Million Paid Streaming Subscribers
David Zaslav Pledges Cost Discipline After WarnerMedia Merger As Streaming ‘Spending Wars’ Intensify
- Pre-merger with Warner Discovery announced it had 22 million paid streaming subscribers at the end of 2021, mostly using Discovery Plus. That puts it at about half what its future sibling HBO Max has at 43.3 million. It's just ahead of Lionsgate's Starz and such which total 19.7 million. Paramount Plus recently reported 56.1 million. Also, even ahead of the merger, Discovery and soon Warner Media CEO David Zaslav said the company will spend more on content but “We’re going to be measured, we’re going to be smart and we’re going to be careful.”
FuboTV Tops Wall Street Estimates For Q4, Passing 1M Subscribers, But Shares Slip On Outlook For “Softer” Q1
- FuboTV is one of the smaller cable replacement options out there but it doubled its revenue on the year and passed the 1 million subscriber mark to reach 1.1 million in 2021, up 106% over 2020. Fubo expects to grow that number to 1.5 million by the end of this year.
‘Euphoria’ Is The Most-Tweeted Show Of The Decade In The US, Twitter Claims
- Twitter announced that HBO's Euphoria was the most tweeted show of the decade. Even before the finale aired Sunday night. Of course the decade began quite recently. We assume Twitter means 2020 not 2021. There were 30 million tweets around season 2.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas To Play Prince’s 1987 Concert Film ‘Sign O’ The Times’ In April
- Alamo Drafthouse is not sitting around waiting for movies to come back to theaters, it's actively trying new things. In honor of the 35th Anniversary of Prince's concert Sign O' The Times, Alamo will show the concert in 4K at 24 locations in the US starting April 1st. It's part of a series called Play It Loud which also includes Josie and the Pussycats, A Hard Day’s Night, and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same.
‘Yellowstone’ Season 4 Lands Peacock Premiere Date
‘Outlander’ Prequel Series in the Works at Starz
Peacock Launches ‘True Crime Tuesdays,’ New Content To Stream In March
‘Ozark’ Final Episodes Get Premiere Date, Ominous Trailer
Daniel Radcliffe Transforms Into ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in First Look Photo of Roku Biopic
- The fourth season of Yellowstone will arrive on Peacock March 28th. Yellowstone shows on the Paramount network but Peacock has the streaming rights.
- Variety says Starz is developing a prequel series to Outlander with no details on that.
- Peacock announced it will start streaming new True Crime content every Tuesday in March which it is calling True Crime Tuesdays.
- Netflix released a trailer for the final seven episodes of Ozark which will premiere April 29th.
- And we got a look at the first official photo of Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic in a biopic being made for Roku.
Dispatches from the Front
This brings me to the topic of spoilers. Remember back in the day when the Red Wedding reactions were EVERYWHERE. Those SoIaF fans sat on a spoiler for YEARS before the TV Show had people questioning their faith in humanity. I've come to the conclusion there are only two types of discussions of movies, Reactions: Discussions of feelings and overall enjoyment of the movie, no spoilers needed. Critiquing: this would have spoilers but should only be discussed with people who saw the movie too (plot holes, character arcs, specific details that worked or didn't). Reviews themselves can be either or both. To deliberately critic a movie to someone who hasn't seen it, intending to spoil it to someone. They are just being a dick. They should be asking themselves why they don't want to see the person they are talking to react to the movie. Why don't they want to see the enjoyment or in the case of the Red Wedding just plain suffering that that movie or TV Show brought to them.
Hope you have a great show.
- Nicky
Follow up on the book of Boba Fett after being "Spoiled"...|
I'm a fan of Star Wars. Movies, TV shows, books, canon and legacy. Boba Fett was OK. Turns out, you can't really ruin a show with "spoilers" if the show is only OK and has no major plot twists. The only boost from binge watching the show was that I didn't lose interest week over week. If I had to do week over week, I probably wouldn't have stuck it out.
Bottom line... knowing what was going to happen kept me going. I'm a fan of being "spoiled" in this instance.
- James
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