Amazon has increased the number of commercials it’s running on Prime Video content. The ad load has jumped from 2.5 to three minutes to between four and six minutes.
Amazon is getting a lot more comfortable with advertisements on its Prime Video streaming service.
The company has bumped up the number of ads on programming to between four and six minutes per hour, according to a study by Adweek. That’s up from between two to three and a half minutes just 18 months ago, when Amazon first added advertising in January of 2024.
Amazon had hinted last year that it was planning to increase its advertising load. It’s a notable shift from the company’s early claims that it would “strive to deliver an experience with meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers.”
Amazon in a statement to Fortune, said “We remain focused on prioritizing ad innovation over volume. While demand continues to grow, our commitment is to improving ad experiences rather than simply increasing the number of ads shown. … We will continue to invest in this important work, creating meaningful innovations that benefit both customers and advertisers alike.”
Amazon’s addition of advertisements and commercials angered many users who had gotten used to the service being ad-free for so many years. The vow of “meaningfully fewer ads” was meant to quell that discord. As other services have embraced ads and the streaming market has matured, though, Amazon seemingly sees an opportunity to increase the number it shows.
Because Prime Video is included in a Prime account, the service has a user base that is significantly larger than many other streaming services, but many Prime holders don’t watch Prime Video, so the value proposition for advertisers wasn’t ideal. (The company also lets viewers skip the ads by paying an extra fee each month.)
While the additional ads could frustrate some users, Adweek notes Prime Video viewers still see significantly fewer commercials than people who watch linear television. Ad loads on those networks typically range from 13 to 16 minutes per hour.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav owns a lot of cable TV networks — but doesn't want to do that anymore.
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Would you like to own CNN, TNT, and the Discovery Channel?
Warner Bros. Discovery owns them now — but wants to get rid of them.
WBD's move follows a similar one Comcast announced a few months ago. Because while cable TV networks still make money, they're a business in permanent decline.
That is the pitch that Warner Bros. Discovery is making to Wall Street now that it has announced it's splitting itself into two companies: One will own Warners' movie and television studio and the HBO Max streaming service; the other — which it's calling its "global networks" unit — will own a bunch of cable TV networks including CNN, TNT, Discovery and the Food Network.
Like Comcast, WBD insists that no, really, it's splitting off its cable TV networks so they can grow and thrive on their own, and you'd be lucky to buy a piece of them.
"The global networks business is a real business," WBD CEO David Zaslav said on the company's investor call Monday morning.
That is definitely true, since those cable networks continue to generate profits. It's also something you don't normally feel compelled to say when you're selling something people want to buy.
The WBD split will generate all kinds of questions to ponder. Some of them are technical: How will WBD's $35 billion in debt be split up between the companies? How will the split companies approach future distribution deals with the likes of Comcast and Charter? How quickly could Comcast and WBD combine their two cable groups into one bigger cable group? Will the split help WBD's stock (it's up Monday — but note that Comcast also spiked when it announced its deal last fall, and has fallen some 20% since)?
Some questions the WBD split can generate may also matter to people who don't care about corporate finance. Such as: What does this mean for the future of CNN — the news channel that's struggling to find a lane in a loud and crowded media environment, but whose brand still has lots of potential value?
But the big takeaway is the obvious takeaway: The people who run the biggest collections of cable TV channels in the country would like someone else to own them. Because every quarter, the number of people who watch those channels and pay for those channels gets smaller.
Like I said late last year: These are garage sales. Maybe someone will want to own shrinking businesses that still throw off lots of cash (paging private equity). But the people who have them now think they'd be better off without them. Buyer beware.
Every time I write an article about the escalating advertising and tracking on today's TVs, someone brings up Apple TV boxes. Among smart TVs, streaming sticks, and other streaming devices, Apple TVs are largely viewed as a safe haven.
"Just disconnect your TV from the Internet and use an Apple TV box."
That's the common guidance you'll hear from Ars readers for those seeking the joys of streaming without giving up too much privacy. Based on our research and the experts we've consulted, that advice is pretty solid, as Apple TVs offer significantly more privacy than other streaming hardware providers.
Glenn Howerton as Ethan, Milly Alcock as Simone, and Meghann Fahy as Devon in "Sirens."
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Netflix's "Sirens" centers on two sisters and an alluring billionaire.
The five-episode series takes place over the course of Labor Day weekend at a ritzy seaside estate.
"Sirens" is classified as a limited series, and Netflix hasn't announced plans for another season.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Sirens."
Netflix's new dark comedy "Sirens" is so addictive, it may leave fans calling out for more.
"Sirens" takes place over Labor Day weekend on a lavish island called Port Haven, where aspiring lawyer Simone DeWitt (Milly Alcock) is working as a live-in assistant to the enigmatic and alluring billionaire Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore). Simone's life among the upper class is disrupted by the arrival of her older sister, Devon (Meghann Fahy), who treks from Buffalo to the town in order to reconnect with Simone and get help taking care of their ailing dad, Bruce (Bill Camp).
The five-episode series is adapted from Molly Smith Metzler's play Elemeno Pea, which she wrote while attending the Juilliard School. She serves as the showrunner.
During its premiere week, "Sirens" debuted in the No. 1 spot on Netflix's English TV list and amassed 16.7 million views in four days.
Although "Sirens" ends by tying up the main characters' storylines, some questions remain, leaving fans wondering if this is the last they've seen of everyone.
Here's what happens to every major character, and a rundown of whether "Sirens" could be back for season two.
The 'Sirens' ending swaps the fates of Simone and Michaela
Milly Alcock as Simone and Julianne Moore as Michaela in "Sirens."
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At the end of episode four, after Simone rejects his proposal, a drunken Ethan (Glenn Howerton) calls her a monster, blames her for his problems, and trips and falls from the estate's cliff. Ethan doesn't die, though. In the finale, he wakes up in the hospital high on meds with both his legs, an arm, and a couple of ribs broken, though he's expected to make a full recovery.
Michaela then fires Simone after learning that her husband, Peter (Kevin Bacon), and Simone kissed. Even though it was a momentary lapse in judgment from Peter that Simone didn't instigate, Michaela feels that Simone can't be trusted anymore and has become a threat to her marriage.
Devon chooses to return to Buffalo with her dad to continue being his caretaker, rather than spend a month on a yacht with Morgan (Trevor Salter), one of the locals she hooked up with. But Simone refuses to join them, because she's unable to forgive her dad for neglecting her as a child, since his actions led to her ending up in foster care.
Simone runs back to the Cliff House with no plan, just desperate not to return to Buffalo. In doing so, she bumps into Peter, who proclaims his love for her.
Mid-gala, Peter ends his 13-year marriage to Michaela and starts a relationship with Simone, who he believes will bring "love and light" into his life (and maybe even another child).
Simone then morphs into Michaela 2.0, adopting her cultlike mannerisms and embracing her new position of power at the estate. She and Devon have an emotional goodbye, knowing that they're embarking on completely different paths.
On the ferry ride out of Port Haven, Devon runs into Michaela, who's been ousted from Cliff House and has no idea where she's headed.
Devon apologizes for accusing Michaela of being a murderer and a cult leader, and Michaela accepts her apology and encourages Devon to cash the $10,000 check she gave her at the start of the series so she can fund a better life for herself in Buffalo.
The series concludes with Simone, wearing an elegant light-blue gown that Michaela got her for the gala, standing at the cliff, staring at the vista during sunset with the hint of a smile.
Will 'Sirens' return for season two?
Milly Alcock as Simone in "Sirens."
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The short answer: probably not.
"Sirens" is categorized and promoted as a Netflix limited series. That said, a second season isn't entirely unlikely.
"Adolescence" skyrocketed in popularity since its debut in March and is currently Netflix's third most-watched English-language show of all time, behind season one of "Wednesday" and season four of "Stranger Things." Although it was labeled as a limited series, Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, is reportedly interested in some form of a second season of "Adolescence" after the first season's success.
Considering how well "Sirens" has performed on the streamer since its release, it wouldn't be surprising if the series didn't end up being limited after all. But for now, Netflix hasn't announced any further plans.
Fahy told Variety that the show reaches a natural conclusion, but she could imagine a continuation.
"I, for one, would love to know what happens to Michaela, where she goes," she said. "So I think it's definitely within the realm of possibility. We didn't talk about it on set, but I would love to do more."
Metzler, for her part, told Glamour that questions about a second season mean that fans are invested in the characters.
"I wrote the play 15 years ago," she said. "I've been thinking about them this whole time. I could write them until the day I die. I'd never say never, but could I do them justice in another season? I'd have to think about it."
"The fact that so many people are asking is really encouraging," she added.
All episodes of "Sirens" are now streaming on Netflix.
The 65-inch LG G3 OLED 4K TV, originally sold for $3,300, is available from Best Buy for only $1,000, but only if you're fine with a refurbished model.
Hulu's reality TV show about eight Mormon mom influencers debuted in September 2024 and quickly became the most-watched unscripted season premiere on the streamer that year.
The concept for the show had its roots on TikTok, where influencer Taylor Frankie Paul confessed in 2022 that she and her then-husband, Tate Paul, were divorcing after "soft swinging" within their friend group got messy.
After sitting out season one, Miranda is ready to clear the air in season two, now streaming on Hulu.
"Taylor's a very vocal person and everybody has heard her side of the scandal. But I'm finally here to tell mine," Miranda says in the season two premiere.
Here's everything to know about her.
Miranda McWhorter shares 2 kids with her ex-husband, Chase McWhorter
Miranda and Chase met after she graduated from high school. They married in 2017 and welcomed their first child, a son named Brooks Wesley McWhorter, two years later. Their second child, a daughter named Cohen Roo McWhorter, was born in 2021.
Miranda and Chase revealed in 2024 that they had divorced after seven years of marriage.
In August of that year, during an appearance on Josie Van Dyke's podcast, "Weekly Trash," Miranda said that her and Chase's reasons for splitting stemmed from issues that arose prior to the swinging scandal.
"That might have not helped for sure, but it definitely did not play a part in the decision-making process," she said.
Chase, for his part, told Us Weekly that they got married "a little prematurely" but continue to be cordial coparents.
Miranda and Chase initially denied their involvement in the 'soft swinging' scandal
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" season two star Miranda McWhorter.
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Chase eventually detailed his connection to the incident two years after the scandal, during his 2024 interview with Us Weekly.
Chase said that the parties where swinging took place began during COVID-19. He said that couples they were friends with would hang out, "get trashed on alcohol," and play games like spin the bottle.
Chase said that he and Miranda participated in some of the games, but "it was never predetermined that we were going to be doing, like, swinging."
"That's what we always thought was a little bit misrepresented in Taylor's story, as she presents it," he said.
Miranda and Taylor hash out what constitutes 'swinging' in season 2
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" stars Taylor Frankie Paul and Miranda McWhorter during season two.
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Miranda's unexpected appearance at an influencer event that the start of the season surprises Taylor and the other women because she left MomTok after the scandal exploded.
Now single and at a different point in her life, Miranda says she hopes to repair her friendships and perhaps rejoin MomTok. But her version of the scandal contradicts Taylor's claims, leading to confusion. Plus, some of the women suspect Miranda may want to rejoin the group to take advantage of the lucrative brand deals that come with MomTok fame.
"The height of what I was ever involved in was playing spin the bottle and kissing other people," Miranda tells them. "And so it was very jarring for me for Taylor to come out and say everyone was hooking up with everyone, because that was simply not the case at all."
"No one had sex ever, period." Miranda says, adding, "I will go to my grave."
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" stars Miranda, Whitney, Layla, and Mikayla during season two.
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In episode two, Miranda says that she lied about not being part of the swinging controversy because she wasn't ready to own up to her actions.
In the following episode, Miranda and Taylor discuss the specifics of what actually occurred in a one-on-one conversation.
While Miranda insists that she only went as far as kissing other people, Taylor says in the confessional that it was more complicated than that.
According to Taylor, they participated in other things too, like the couples having sex in the same bed at the same time. Other times, she said they were blindfolded and tried to guess which husband they were kissing. Taylor also recalls a night when she and Miranda got so drunk that they made out while people filmed it.
In a confessional, Miranda says that a lot of embarrassing things happened, and she felt out of control and wronged when Taylor spoke out on TikTok.
"I wish that I would have come out with what really happened rather than denying everything," Miranda says. "That probably did make her feel worse and look worse, and that wasn't my intention. It was very much, 'I'm terrified and I have a reputation as a Mormon to uphold.' And I regret that."
Miranda seems to be on friendly terms with the MomTokers
Season two stars Layla Taylor, Miranda McWhorter, Jessi Ngatikaura, Mikayla Matthews, Mayci Neeley, Taylor Frankie Paul, Jen Affleck, Whitney Leavitt, and Demi Engemann.
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Nowadays, Miranda's social media presence includes sponsored content and videos about single life.
In the lead-up to the season two premiere, she's has been posting videos that include some of the MomTokers. Members of the group have also been commenting on her TikTok videos.
In April, MomToker and fellow cast member Layla Taylor joined Miranda and her friends at the country music festival Stagecoach. That month, Miranda also posted a TikTok featuring Taylor, Layla, Mayci Neeley, Mikayla Matthews, and Jessi Ngatikaura.
Rian Johnson's "Poker Face" returns for season 2 on Peacock with Natasha Lyonne solving mysteries.
Johnson explained to Business Insider how he recruits a star-studded guest cast each season.
Johnson plans to take on an original movie after the release of Netflix's "Wake Up Dead Man."
When it comes to murder, Rian Johnson knows what elements make up the perfect crime.
The writer-director has spent the last six years immersed in the whodunit genre, surrounding Daniel Craig's Southern dandy detective Benoit Blanc with a cast of quirky suspects in two "Knives Out" movies (a third is out this fall), and refining the procedural format for streaming with Peacock's "Poker Face" starring Natasha Lyonne.
"The murder mystery genre has served me well," Johnson told Business Insider with a giggle in the days leading up to the season two premiere of "Poker Face" on Thursday.
The series, which stars Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a mystery-solving former casino worker on the run from the mob, uses the case-of-the-week format to feature all manner of zany scenarios acted out by a star-studded cast of guest stars. This season, Charlie must do everything from work as an extra on a B-movie set at a mortuary run by Giancarlo Esposito to find the killer among quadruplets all played by Cynthia Erivo.
Nathasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson at the season 2 premiere of "Poker Face."
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The series' familiar procedural format helps keep the show grounded, so Johnson can encourage the "Poker Face" writers to come up with outlandish scenarios for each episode.
"To me, having a show like this, it would be sad if you just cranked out a version of the same thing every time," Johnson said. "It's an engine to drive batshit crazy ideas that you might not get made otherwise. That, to me, is the fun part."
Johnson knows the value in keeping things creatively interesting. That's why he plans to take a break from the whodunit genre and start a new project after his latest "Knives Out " installment "Wake Up Dead Man" hits Netflix this fall.
"It's a completely different thing," Johnson told BI of his next idea. (And no, it's not a return to "Star Wars.") "It's a little scary, but in a fun way."
Below, Business Insider spoke with Johnson about turning crazy ideas into "Poker Face" episodes, casting actors via a group chat, and why he hopes "Wake Up Dead Man" gets played in as many movie theaters as possible — despite Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos' calling movie theaters "outdated."
Business Insider: Each "Poker Face" episode this season feels like a mini movie. While watching, I wondered if there's an archivist on the show who has encyclopedic knowledge of everything that's happened, simply just to make sure not to repeat a bit or the way someone was murdered.
Rian Johnson: Yeah, it's me [laughs]. In terms of what we've done in the previous season, I mean, if you talk to someone who has done "Law and Order" where they are on their 89th season and 300 episodes, they would laugh at us. But we have some of the writers' room assistants do research. So that is one element of it.
What does a proposed "Poker Face" story need for you to consider it for an episode?
We definitely have a blue sky day where people just pitch, "What about a baseball episode?" and others, and that's really fun because you also get to know the writers in the room, because everyone is pitching their own pet ideas. And then the reality is you pick a horse at some point and say, "Okay, let's develop this thing," and then the real work happens, which is hashing out the show and the structure.
Charlie is not a cop; it's not her job to do these things. By necessity, you have to find a way in for her with every episode. And that means you have to develop a relationship, you have to have an emotional investment. With "Poker Face," it's something that you actually really need to make the episode tick. So finding ways to do that every week without it feeling like it's repeating itself, finding different relationship dynamics, finding different ways in — the connection Charlie has with the killer or the person killed — that ends up being one of the biggest challenges of the writing.
Natasha Lyonne and several Cynthia Erivos in the first episode of "Poker Face" season 2.
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A perfect example is the first episode of season two, which you directed. In it, Charlie meets Cynthia Erivo's character while working at an apple orchard. Was that something not used in the last season?
No, the orchard setting was fresh. I think part of it came from we were shooting in New York, and we were like, "What's around there? Oh, an apple orchard. That will be ideal!" But that's also a fun element of it. It harkens back to the "Columbo" thing or more "Quantum Leap," every episode zooming into a microcosm fishbowl of a world. Episode 1 came from the notion of all these false starts. We could have had a "Poker Face" episode set in a haunted house hayride or a parking garage, but those pesky gunmen keep chasing Charlie.
Are you personally involved in selecting the guest stars?
Yeah. The casting process for the main guest stars is a text thread with me, Natasha, Tony Tost, the showrunner, and our casting directors. Sometimes it's just me and Natasha bouncing back and forth ideas of friends that we want to text. So it's a very fun, personal, and chaotic process because we're casting the show week to week.
So it's a lot of figuring out if schedules are going to fit.
But there's also an element that's also, "I was out the other night at dinner and I ran into so and so. Do you think they'd want to be in this episode that starts shooting on Monday?" There's a bit of a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants element to it, which is fun and terrifying. It's amazing to get to the end of the season after that process and look back and see the roster that we've gotten.
Has an actor you've gone out to for the show ever declined because they're holding out for a role in a "Knives Out" movie?
[Laughs] Not to my knowledge. If that has happened, they have not given that reason to me. But also being in one doesn't preclude you from being in the other. And these are very different processes casting both. We cast as we're shooting with "Poker Face." And we started shooting that halfway into the "Wake Up Dead Man" shoot.
Josh O'Connor will star alongside "Knives Out" lead actor Daniel Craig in "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
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So someone you cast in a "Knives Out" movie could show up in a "Poker Face" episode, and vice versa?
Absolutely. Most of the people in this season I would cast in a heartbeat in a "Knives Out" movie.
After "Wake Up Dead Man," have you thought about what you'll do next?
Actually, I have a whole movie in my head that I just have to write, which makes it sound easy, but it won't be. I'm hoping to take the summer and dig into that. It is not a Benoit Blanc movie, it's not a murder mystery, it's a very different genre. It's an original. So, I'm hoping to dive into that.
So, not taking a trip back to a galaxy far, far away?
Not for this next one.
Recently, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos spoke at the Time100 Summit and said this of the state of theatrical releases: "Folks grew up thinking, 'I want to make movies on a gigantic screen, and have strangers watch them, and play in the theater for two months, and people cry, and sold-out shows.' It just doesn't happen anymore. It's an outdated concept." Do you agree with him?
Obviously I don't, because I love movies. I love going to see movies. But, also, I have a feeling talking to Ted, it would be a different thing than one quote taken and kind of tossed at me in this context. So I don't want to phrase this as I'm having a proxy discussion with Ted right here.
But, I will say, disconnected from that, I think theatrical is not going anywhere. With the success of Ryan [Coogler]'s movie, "Sinners," and the "Minecraft" movie, I think we've seen if you put a movie people want to see in the theaters, they are going to show up for it. That experience of being in a full house and having that experience is so important. It's something that I love and I want more of in the world.
I'm sure you've had discussions with Ted yourself about theatrical within the Netflix bubble. Daniel Craig has gone on record saying it saddened him how "Glass Onion" was released in so few theaters. Do you hope "Wake Up Dead Man" will be shown on more screens?
We'll see. We're going to push for all we can get. I want this in as many theaters for as long as possible. I love Ted, I love working with Netflix. They have been absolutely wonderful partners. We're going to push for everything we can get in terms of theatrical with it because I want as many people as possible to see it in that form.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
The first three episodes of "Poker Face" are now streaming on Peacock, with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays.
Charlotte Ritchie as Kate Lockwood in season five, episode four of "You."
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"You" star Charlotte Ritchie, who plays Kate Lockwood, spoke to BI about the fifth and final season.
Ritchie reacted to Kate's fate and said she was "on the fence" about what should happen to her.
The actor also gave her opinion on how Joe's story ends.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead for season five of Netflix's "You."
The final chapter of Netflix's hit series "You" has arrived, and star Charlotte Ritchie is (mostly) thrilled that her character, Kate Lockwood, made it out alive.
The fifth season of "You," released on Thursday, picks up three years after Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Kate move back to his hometown of New York City at the end of season four. Everything is going well for the now-married power couple, but Joe's dark side can only be suppressed for so long, and once it reemerges and reinvigorates him, their relationship becomes fraught.
Ritchie told Business Insider that Kate has known all along that this is who Joe is — she's just been in denial about it. This season is "a real lesson in accepting the reality of your situation," Ritchie said.
When Kate finally sees clearly, she decides that the only way to stop Joe is to kill him.
"She is genuinely afraid of him and what he can do," Ritchie explained. "I think she just sees how this man consistently gets away with everything, and she's like, 'He has to not exist anymore for us to be safe. There's no system in the world that could keep him from us.'"
Charlotte Ritchie as Kate Lockwood and Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in season five, episode five of "You."
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Kate recruits Joe's season three love interest Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle) and season four character Nadia(Amy-Leigh Hickman) to help her. This is one way the final season weaves together loose ends from the series and provides closure for other fan-favorite characters.
"What I love about this series is that they really lean into the genre. They really lean into the history of the show," Ritchie said. "I think it does the whole narrative justice."
In one dramatic moment in the penultimate episode, after getting into a physical altercation, Kate and Joe end up on the floor of Mooney's basement as the bookstore goes up in flames.
Resigned and more truthful than ever and thinking they've both reached their end, Joe admits that he killed Kate's dad and murdered Love. Relieved, Kate reveals that she secretly recorded Joe's confession and will be sending it to the authorities.
"You got me," Joe says. "You can die happy."
It's a scene that, like many in the show, finds the humor in unconventional moments.
"I love that that's in there, just Kate and Joe both quite dryly commenting on how absurd it is and how sad that they're both going to die," Ritchie said. "I just think it's a great scene. I think it's really well written."
Ritchie as Kate and Badgley as Joe in season five, episode nine of "You."
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Neither Kate nor Joe dies in that moment, and Ritchie has complicated feelings about her character escaping the fire.
"I was so happy because I've grown to really love this character, and I found it was so fun to get to be right in the midst of getting him," Ritchie said. "But I also felt like if there's ever a poetic justice in death, there was some justice in Kate going down with him."
"I really don't believe in people dying because they've done bad things, but in the world of the justice of this show, there's such a redemptive element to Kate's demise that it would've been OK," she added.
With Joe locked up for life in the finale, Ritchie said she's happy that Henry has a consistent and stable parent. But still, Kate's not innocent.
"She's done some pretty dastardly things and she's got herself into scrapes and been responsible for a lot of people's downfalls," Ritche said. "So yeah, I was on the fence as to what should happen to her, but I was obviously really pleased that she comes through."
Ritchie as Kate in the season five finale of "You."
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"You" co-showrunners Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo previously told BI that they are prepared for fans to have varying reactions to Joe's fate in the finale and their choice to put him behind bars. Ritchie, too, is still grappling with that conclusion.
"I feel so mixed about it," she said.
After multiple seasons of seeing Joe do terrible, gruesome things, she's not sure what ending could adequately bookend his story.
"There is no fate that matches a life like that," Ritchie said. "But I do feel like the isolation is a good punishment for him. The thing is, I just don't get any sense that he's going to reflect or grow. It's not going to be a formative or spiritual experience for him. Broadly, it isn't for people. As far as I can tell, solitary confinement just seems to wear people down, except for some kind of amazing exceptions."
Case in point: in the final scene, Joe reads a creepy fan letter and says that maybe the problem isn't him — perhaps it's society.
"I do find the letter-writing thing quite an interesting twist, and his ability to turn it back onto his admirers and these women who have been asking to be involved with him," Ritchie said. "He'll never accept responsibility."
Badgley as Joe in the season five finale of "You."
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As the press tour for season five winds down, Ritchie already misses the cast and crew, including her frequent scene partner Badgley.
"I love Penn," Ritchie said. "I think he's such a decent and thoughtful and committed actor. He's such a lovely friend. He's very funny. And he commits to that role in a way that means that when you are working with him, you can do the same."
After seeing Kate go from closed-off and cold to blossoming in the final season, Ritchie is going to miss exploring more sides of her.
"And I'll miss the outrageous scenarios that are constant. Like, the nonstop drama, the daily, different high-octane situations where people are constantly about to extort somebody or about to kill somebody," she said. "That kind of level of high drama, I'll miss."
Multiple studies and investigations have found that about half of American households watch TV and movies with subtitles on, but only a relatively small portion of those include someone with a hearing disability. That's because of the trouble many people have understanding dialogue in modern viewing situations, and Netflix has now introduced a subtitles option to help.
The closed captioning we've all been using for years includes not only the words the people on-screen are saying, but additional information needed by the hard of hearing, including character names, music cues ("dramatic music intensifies") and sound effects ("loud explosion").
For those who just wanted to make sure they didn't miss a word here and there, the frequent descriptions of sound effects and music could be distracting. This new format omits those extras, just including the spoken words and nothing else—even in the same language as the spoken dialogue.
The U.S. Department of Justice is probing Disney’s deal to take a controlling stake in FuboTV, Bloomberg reports. Fubo is a live TV streaming service known for its extensive sports coverage. Officials are examining whether the deal would create a concentration of power in the sports streaming market. In January, Disney announced that it was going […]
YouTube said on Wednesday that it will launch a redesign of its TV app this summer. On the books are easier navigation, playback, and quality tweaks, as well as better access to comments, channel info, and subscribing. The company didn’t provide any further details about the redesign, but we’ve asked for a peek at the […]
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