A former teammate of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown said issues related to the superstar’s professionalism have been “brewing for years.”
On Friday, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com provided comments from several current and former members of the Steelers roster about Brown’s recent falling-out with the franchise. One passed along a story about head coach Mike Tomlin telling the team why the wideout often received a pass for tardiness.
“[Tomlin] essentially told the group: ‘We’ll tolerate it now because of what he brings on the field, but the minute production stops, you don’t overlook it,’” the ex-Steeler said.
The situation boiled over when Brown missed the team’s Week 17 game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Gerry Dulac and Ed Bouchetteof thePittsburgh Post-Gazettereported the wide receiver sat out the season finale following a practice dispute with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, not because of the knee injury cited by the team on itsinjury report.
Tomlin was asked during his season-ending press conference whether distractions could ultimately overshadow a player’s productivity.
“Certainly,” Tomlintold reporters, adding it would handle any discipline for Brown’s actions during the final week of the campaign “in-house.”
The 30-year-old Miami native remained his usual Pro Bowl-caliber self when on the field. He racked up 104 receptions for 1,297 yards and a career-high 15 touchdowns in 15 games.
Now the question is whether Brown will return to the team in 2019—he’s got three years left on his four-year, $68 millioncontractwith the Steelers—or if the front office could trade him in the offseason.
Fowler reported the market of potential suitors is “small but strong,” and one former Steelers player told ESPN.com the end of the receiver’s time in Pittsburgh could be near.
“This has been brewing for years,” he said. “It’s just now coming to the surface. And it’s probably over.”
If Brown is traded before the 2019 season, his Steelers tenure will end with seven Pro Bowl selections and four first-team All-Pro nods since the team picked him in the sixth round of the 2010 draft out of Central Michigan.
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Facebook’s photo-sharing, standalone app Moments is going away, the company has announced (via Cnet).
The rarely-used app will be shuttered on Feb. 25 and Facebook has launched a tool that lets users salvage the photos and videos from the service before that date.
“We are sad to announce that we will be ending support for Moments, and after February 25 the app will no longer be available,” Facebook wrote on its Moments Facebook Page.
Notably, if you scroll down that same Page, the next post is from July 2018, and the one after that is from May 2016, which tells you quite a bit about how inactive the development and promotion of Moments was. The page has a total of 8 official posts.
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Moments was launched in 2015 and it was perhaps best described as a Google Photos clone with an emphasis on sharing. Once you installed it, it would organize the photos and videos on your phone either by time, location or the people in the photos. Then, you could share photos or albums with your friends and family.
According to Cnet, Facebook admitted that it’s shutting down the app because not many people were using it. Then again, perhaps people would be more keen to use it had Facebook updated it more frequently. For example, the version history of the iOS variant of the Moments app shows that the app was updated only two times since Sept. 2017 (not counting the latest update which merely lets you export your data from the service).
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If you’re a user, you can use this tool to retrieve your photos and videos from the service.
In Randi Zuckerberg’s world of satirical fairytales, “happily ever after” is not a guarantee.
On Friday, Zuckerberg and her longtime business associate Natasha Lewin announced the launch of a silly, yet surprisingly dark, family-friendly podcast called “Once Upon a Timestamp.” The podcast features, as they describe them, “woke/depressing” and “feminist/current” re-tellings of classic fairytales, with contemporary themes like politics, gender, and the tech world.
For example, the first episode retells the story of The Three Little Pigs to throw shade on Bitcoin ICOs. The second, based on The Emperor’s New Clothes, takes to task the “narcissistic” and “loud mouth jerk” of an emperor that’s running our “kingdom.”
“You can draw a parallel to our current political situation, if you wish,” Zuckerberg said of the latter episode while speaking with Mashable. “We really tried to take these classic fairytales we all know and love and rewrite them to make them relevant — even if that makes them depressing.”
Zuckerberg is the older sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. She was an early Facebook employee, and has gone on to produce a children’s television series, host a radio show, write books about parenting, and more.
Now, Zuckerberg says her latest venture is about telling stories fit for our modern age, while also capturing the developing market of fictional podcasts for families and kids.
“Obviously I’ve loved being involved in new media at the very beginning,” Zuckerberg told Mashable over the phone. “The scripted podcast space is still so new and exciting right now, but 2 or 3 years from now, it’s going to explode.”
Three of the top ten podcasts on iTunes’ Kids & Family chart are storytelling podcasts. The show ‘Stories Podcast’ also re-tells fairytales.
A “Fairy Fail” is a fairy tale with a realistic ending.
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Zuckerberg herself narrates the podcast. What she says makes this particular show unique is two-fold: both the new spin she puts on the stories, and the fact that it’s intended to be enjoyable for parents, too.
“We really wanted to write this in a way where the entire family could listen together,” Zuckerberg said. “The voiceovers are silly, we have a lot of jokes, but definitely there are deeper messages and nuances for the adults.”
Zuckerberg acknowledged that a lot of the “lessons” from the podcasts might go over some kids’ heads. Most elementary schoolers aren’t necessarily attuned to the Bitcoin bubble. But the lively voice acting and over-the-top sound effects are meant to keep kids entertained. And later episodes do subvert fairytales in order to stress some more universal and kid-comprehensible values, such as not defining happiness by getting married to a Prince.
At the same time, the inside jokes about HODLing and Sarah Huckabee Sanders can provide some laughs for adults in the know.
The episodes also contain some surprisingly resonant observations about the tech industry. Zuckerberg said she specifically connected the story of the three little pigs to cryptocurrency because she was personally so tired of all the bluster surrounding ICOs that never materialized into anything. The two little pigs behind StrawCoin and StickCoin represent the tech bros and the hollow do-gooders that populate Silicon Valley.
“The best way to solve the world’s problem is from a computer screen, right?,” the StrawCoin piggie says. “I’ll fix all the world’s problems from my new penthouse apartment in San Fran, yo!”
Quite the critique from an early employee of Facebook — a corporation whose claim that it is all about doing good in the world is now being seriously doubted more than ever before. Then again, Zuckerberg has been outspoken about the ills of the tech world before.
“We’re really trying to capture the conversations that people are having right now,” Zuckerberg said. “Conversations about viral trends of the moment, or big issues that people are talking about, or things we’re grappling with as a society.”
Two of the podcasts are already available on Messy.fm, Spotify, and iTunes, with three more coming soon. There are also additional episodes in the works that discuss race, gender, and, of course, the tech world. The podcast refers to the stories as “Fairy Fails” because fairy tales fit for the modern age can still resonate — even if they don’t have a happy ending.
“There is just something about fairytales,” Zuckerberg said. “Every person knows them, they’re very familiar. But they’re so outdated and desperately in need of a retelling. Children need honest stories about what’s happening in today’s zeitgeist.”
If that means taking a satirical look at the tech world and beyond — without the promise of a happy ending — these might just be fairytales worth telling.
After decades of claims, counterclaims and, at times, ugly politics, Athens and Skopje have resolved one of Europe’s most intractable conflicts.
A lengthy, stormy debate in Greece’s 300-seat parliament concluded on Friday with a majority of 153 legislators voting in favour of a deal seeking to end the two neighbours’ long-running dispute by renaming the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as the Republic of North Macedonia. A total of 146 lawmakers voted against the deal and one abstained.
“Today is a historic day. Greece protects an important part of its history, the heritage of ancient Greek Macedonia,” said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Twitter at the end of a bruising process which saw his ruling coalition ally quit earlier this month.
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev congratulated Tsipras and hailed the outcome as a “historical victory”.
Congratulations my friend @tsipras_eu, together with our peoples we reached a historical victory. Long live the Prespa Agreement! For eternal peace and progress of the Balkans and in Europe! pic.twitter.com/f9aIpMa4Xz
According to the contentious Prespes Agreement, signed in June last year, the small Balkan country will now be internationally recognised as North Macedonia in exchange for Greece unblocking its path towards NATO and European Union membership. Its language will be recognised as “Macedonian” and its citizens as “Macedonian/Citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia”.
The vote in Athens, which came nearly two weeks after MPs in Skopje narrowly approved the name change, settles the countries’ 27-year dispute.
Societies in both countries, however, remain polarised.
In Athens, thousands of people waving flags and chanting “traitors” gathered outside the Greek parliament building on Thursday evening to protest against the agreement.
Similar protests were held in other parts of the country, mostly in northern towns where opposition to the deal is stronger, with polls showing six in 10 Greeks rejecting the agreement.
Athens has long opposed the usage of the name Macedonia for its neighbour, which declared independence in 1991 following the break-up of Yugoslavia, saying it implied a territorial claim over the Greek province with the same name as well as an appropriation of Greece’s cultural heritage. Skopje has denied the allegations.
“Certain Greeks oppose the deal because they believe that the term Macedonia historically belongs to the Greeks. Therefore the use of ‘Macedonia’ by our northern neighbour it’s like an historical theft committed against ‘greekness’,” Dimitris Christopoulos, professor of political science at Panteion University in Athens, said.
In Skopje, opponents to the deal have also taken to the streets in recent months.
Trajko Slaveski, a former minister of finance and current member of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, described the agreement as a defeat for his country.
“The deal represents a sheer capitulation under the irresponsible demands of a neighbouring country, both a NATO and EU member, and as such could not be supported,” Slaveski told Al Jazeera.
For Slaveski, it’s not only a matter of legitimacy, but also about heritage and identity.
“The name of the country, and, moreover, the identity, culture, and history of its people has been changed under immense pressure, with numerous breaches of our constitution and respectful laws. This undermines the very foundations of our country and society, with grave consequences for our future,” he argued.
Still, others believe the agreement holds positive implications for the two countries, both at the regional and European level.
“The deal shows that the carrots and sticks of the EU process work and that the EU can function as a peace project, while reaffirms the presence of NATO and the EU in the region,” Nikos Skoutaris, senior lecturer in European Law at the University of East Anglia, said.
The deal will also enable greater cooperation in many areas, including in dealing with the refugee crisis and fostering better economic ties, according Gjorgji Filipov, a diplomat in Skopje.
“Macedonia and Greek are winning and losing something, but finally is for the good of both sides,” he said.
He promoted Donald Trump’s political rise decades before anyone. Now he’s been indicted for the bruising style of politics he wielded gleefully on Trump’s behalf.
“Perhaps an impolite question,” I asked Roger Stone in a text message last month, “but what if something you envisioned well before almost anybody else and worked toward for more than a generation”—a Donald Trump presidency—”is also in the end the source of your legal demise?”
“That isn’t going to happen,” he responded, punctuating his missive with a yellow, laughing, smiley-face emoji.
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Friday morning, it happened.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Stone, charging him with false statements, witness tampering and obstruction of proceeding, indeed landed with a strangely poetic, practically Shakespearean boom, marking a karmic kind of culmination of one of Trump’s longest and most important relationships—an ignominious end, maybe, the result of an idea that was first and foremost his, starting nearly 40 years back.
“I think,” Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio told me, “the universe seeks balance and order, and Stone’s life of disorder and corruption had to be confronted at some point.”
“He is,” longtime New York Democratic strategist George Arzt said, “the wicked seed who has poisoned the tree of democracy.”
Stone met Trump in 1979. The matchmaker was the infamous Roy Cohn, and the context was the fledgling Ronald Reagan presidential bid. Just 27 at the time, six years younger than Trump, Stone was in New York working as the campaign’s regional political director. He needed people to help raise money. Trump was a Jimmy Carter donor but joined Reagan’s finance committee as well. “We hit it off immediately,” Stone recalled.
Ever since, off and on, but mostly on, Stone has been to Trump a lobbyist, an adviser, a strategist, a consultant, and something like a friend. In the long life of the current president—a man whose disposition tends toward isolation and whose relationships typically are transparently transactional and ephemeral—this always has made Stone stand out.
The basis of this Cohn-stoked bond was plain. They shared an ideology of expedience, a stated disdain for elites, a disregard for convention, a core belief in the animal power of publicity. A taste for havoc. An overall and abiding approach to life defined by bottomless reservoirs of cynicism and shamelessness. “I would never take a job in government,” Stone once said. “I’m interested in politics.” Politics, in the estimation of Stone, are a Machiavellian combination of combat and showmanship. And they definitively, in his mind, are not about “uniting people”—they are about “dividing people.” One of Stone’s favorite quotes? The Joker in Batman. “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.”
In Trump, almost immediately, he saw a potential president. He was, Stone thought, “a prime piece of political horseflesh.” He was a star. He was a brand. He had “the look.” He had the size—not just height and heft but the ability to fill a space and never not be at the center. And he possessed an uncommon kind of temerity. “He’ll say and do anything,” Stone told me last year. And he thought all of this well before Trump for president became what almost everybody else considered a recurring wink-wink tabloid gag. Stone told people—told people that Trump was going to be the president. “He told me in 1985,” veteran Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said. “Roger told me,” added Michael Caputo, a Republican strategist and Stone protégé, “that one of the first times he ever met—among the first times he ever met with Donald Trump—that he knew that he could become president. And that he told him that.”
Stone spearheaded Trump’s initial presidential dalliance starting in the fall of 1987 with the more than $94,000 of “open letter” newspaper ads in which Trump criticized American foreign policy—gripes startlingly consistent with his views still today—followed by a speech he gave at a Rotary Club in New Hampshire. Trump considered it mainly as a way to promote his forthcoming book—The Art of the Deal—but that’s not how Stone saw it. He coordinated, too, a trip to the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, where Trump was asked to do national televisioninterviews in this new context. Stone was hoping it would whet his appetite. It did.
He also was the animator of Trump’s run for the Reform Party nomination in 1999. “We’re in a position here where the voters are fed up with both parties,” Stone told C-Span that November. “They’re looking for new choices. And if the American people are presented a viable, different choice, they may just take it.” He credited Trump with “a Kennedyesque kind of charisma.”
“A friend of long standing,” Trump called Stone in that year’s quick-written campaign book, The America We Deserve.
On this, Stone often demured and deflected, at times trying to pin the kernel of the notion on Richard Nixon, but here and there he slipped and told the truth, straight up. “I launched the idea of Donald J. Trump for President,” he wrote in last year’s Stone’s Rules.
If Trump got from his father a running start of political connections as well as a colossal financial safety net and from Cohn a decade-and-a-half-long tutorial on dark-arts verve, this is what he gleaned from Stone. The road map. The goading and the prodding. “Roger,” Trump said in an interview for the 2017 documentary, “Get Me Roger Stone,” “always wanted me to run for president.”
“Roger’s relationship with Trump has been so interconnected that it’s hard to define what’s Roger and what’s Donald,” Manafort said in the same film.
And the ’16 Trump campaign?
“The apotheosis,” said Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and the New Yorker, “of Roger Stone’s politics.”
“Make your message big, bold, and simple.” “Hang a name on your opponent.” “Attack, attack, attack—never defend.” “Nothing is on the level.” “Hate is a more powerful motivator than love.” All “Stone’s Rules.” Also: “Admit nothing; deny everything.”
“I’m certainly guilty of bluffing and posturing and punking the Democrats,” Stone said last fall. But beyond that? “Unless they’ve passed some law against bullshit and I missed it, I’m engaging in tradecraft. It’s politics.” He said he hadn’t broken any laws. He dismissed all this as a “political vendetta.” He declared himself “unconcerned.” He kept talking. He said this last month on ABC he never would testify against Trump. Trump on Twitter praised his “guts.”
“Never quit.”
“Never be scared.”
“Stone’s Rules,” too.
On Friday, though, there’s one that felt especially germane. “Past is fucking prologue.” The last four decades led to this morning’s news—tripped up by having followed their own “rules.”
“I would say that the right word for everything that now arises out of the Trump-Stone intersection, and their roots in Roy Cohn’s world, is karma. The public trajectory of their mutual problems was launched when Stone convinced Trump to get on that helicopter and visit New Hampshire,” Trump biographer Tim O’Brien told me.
“If that’s not the definition of karma,” he said, “what is?”
“Proud of my President,” Stone wrote Friday in an Instagram post around 2 a.m. Four hours later, authorities arrived at his house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and banged on his door. “FBI!” an agent shouted. “Open the door!”
The Queen’s thinly-veiled intervention comes just days before the UK’s embattled Prime Minister is due to return to the House of Commons with a revised Brexit plan on Jan. 29 after her initial deal was rejected by a historic majority on Jan. 15.
Speaking at the Women’s Institute in Sandringham, the Queen implored people to seek “common ground” and to respect other people’s views. While she didn’t explicitly refer to Brexit, royal experts say the Queen was undoubtedly “sending a message.”
“As we look for new answers in the modern age, I for one prefer the tried and tested recipes, like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view; coming together to seek out the common ground; and never losing sight of the bigger picture,” said the Queen.
“I for one prefer the tried and tested recipes…”
As the head of state, the Queen has to remain politically neutral and usually doesn’t state her views on controversial issues. This might explain why she’s not explicitly mentioned the word Brexit in her remarks.
This isn’t the first time the Queen has appeared to comment on this particular issue. Her Christmas broadcast also appeared to touch on the “deeply held differences” that are defining the national mood at present.
“Even with the most deeply held differences, treating the other person with respect and as a fellow human being is always a good first step towards greater understanding,” said the Queen on Dec. 25.
The BBC’s royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell commented on the Queen’s most recent allusion to Brexit.
“It is impossible to imagine that the head of state would use a construction of words such as this without it being appreciated that they would be seen as a reference to the current political debate,” he said.
Activists protesting against the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold a candlelight vigil outside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul [File: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP]
The United Nations human rights office has said that a team of international experts would conduct an inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters news agency on Thursday she will travel to Turkey next week to head an “independent international inquiry” into Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Callamard, a French academic and director of the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression initiative at Columbia University in New York, reports to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and has a global mandate to investigate executions.
In a statement, the UN human rights office said that Callamard would be accompanied by Helena Kennedy and Duarte Nuno Vieira on the visit to Turkey from January 28 to February 3.
Kennedy is one of the United Kingdom’s most established lawyers and a Member of the House of Lords.
Nuno Vieira is a professor at the faculty of medicine of the University of Coimbra in Portugal and an expert in pathology and forensic science.
He also serves as president of the Ibero-American Network of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science Institutions and as vice president of the European Confederation of Experts on Evaluation and Repair of Bodily Injury.
Last week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he does not have the authority to decide himself to launch an investigation into the death of Khashoggi and no country had submitted an official request to launch a criminal investigation.
Saudi Arabia insists that the death of Khashoggi, a Saudi national and vocal critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was a “rogue operation” carried out without the latter’s knowledge and has put 11 defendants on trial for the crime, including five who the Saudi prosecution is seeking the death penalty for.
But the international community has questioned the credibility of Riyadh’s investigation and some have speculated that those indicted are such high-level figures that they must have been working on the orders of Prince Mohammed.
Queen of the internet, Fiona the Hippo, just turned two. And as if that fact alone didn’t warrant an article, another internet famous hippo just sent Fiona a pretty sweet birthday song.
Fiona, who lives and reigns in Cincinnati Zoo, got a special birthday song from Timothy, her male famous hippo counterpart from San Antonio Zoo, who has been courting her on social media for some time now.
San Antonio Zoo tweeted a video showing Timothy attempting to “sing” a birthday song for Fiona by letting out a grunt-like hippo sound, before letting a five-person mariachi band take over.
Timothy’s birthday greeting came after Cincinnati Zoo had shared their own special birthday video. Fiona’s care team got her a birthday cake worthy of the queen that she is, and Fiona, famous lover of snacking, dived right in.
They also posted some pretty cute throwback pics of Fiona’s journey from premature hippo baby to 1,000-pound hippo DIVA.
Cincinnati’s favorite baby hippo has entered what her care team hopes will not be her “terrible twos”! This is another major milestone for the preemie that almost didn’t make it, weighing a fifth of what a normal baby hippo would weigh when she was born on 1/24/17 #TBT#TeamFionapic.twitter.com/IMg3ahAYmt
In Binged, Mashable breaks down why we binge-watch, how we binge-watch, and what it does to us. Because binge-watching is the new normal.
Nothing against You, but as far as television shows go, it didn’t do great when it aired on Lifetime. The fun, pulpy show about a bookstore manager who becomes dangerously obsessed with a woman came and went in the summer of 2018 with barely a peep from Twitter or the TV cultural hive mind. It’s not surprising that Lifetime cancelled You, but in a savvy move from Netflix, the streaming giant picked up the show and renewed it for a second season.
When You showed up on Netflix, magic happened. It became an almost overnight hit, with a reported 40 million viewers of the first season. Outlets wrote extensively about its bonkers plot and characters, hashtags were born, and what had been an obscure network satire became must-see TV.
The case of You is interesting because technically, the only difference between the show as it aired on Lifetime and Netflix is that on Netflix, You could be binge-watched. Well, that and access to Netflix’s massive audience. But You sailed above many other Netflix options to dominate the conversation because it was and is a perfect binge-watch show. As a weekly watch? It’s just OK.
There’s a tangible difference between shows that are written to be binged and those that are meant to be watched week to week. Binge shows often have shorter, more compact seasons and rely on a formula that’s on prominent display with You and Netflix’s tentpole series Stranger Things — ending each episode with the perfect balance of narrative resolve and “oh shit” revelations that make viewers need to watch the next episode. Immediately.
As for weekly shows, there are other hallmarks that make them good in their own medium. Sitcoms, of course, occupy their own place in TV land, since shows like Superstore and Brooklyn Nine-Nine can essentially be viewed out of order. Weekly sitcoms offer a 30-minute dose of television viewing pleasure that is separate from streaming — their familiarity and formula are pleasant enough to stand on their own. When back seasons of sitcoms are binged, is it often in the form of a comfort binge.
Other weekly shows thrive because the space between the episodes is just as important as the episodes themselves.
Other weekly shows thrive because the space between the episodes is just as important as the episodes themselves. Nearly all of the enjoyment derived from shows like Westworld, which should never be binged, comes from the slow, striptease-y reveal of its twists and betrayals. Because it and other peak weekly shows like This Is Us and True Detective dispense their answers at an intentionally glacial pace, talking about what might happen on the show is sometimes more interesting than it is to watch what actually does happen.
Somewhere between the ultimate binge show and the entirely unbingeable are the programs that are definitely watchable week by week but that actually get better when watched in their entirety after knowing what happens. These are the rare bears of the television world, because it’s difficult to write a show that appeals to both sides of a TV watcher’s brain at the same time.
The Good Place is one of those bears. In addition to its excellent weekly installments, the show ended its first two seasons with world-breaking twists that make its viewers question what happened in the previous episodes. The first season of The Good Place is likable because of its plot and characters, but after its doozy of a finale, the entire season was cast in a new light and became better when rewatched, and likely binged, with the audience’s full knowledge of events.
Another show that walks the binge/unbinge tightrope is Game of Thrones, the last remaining vestige of the era of appointment television. For those in the Thrones zone, it’s unfathomable to miss a live episode, and while the seasons are (mostly) well structured enough to support the same type of weekly conversations that buoy Westworld, Game of Thrones is also bingeable in retrospect.
Because Thrones relies on a rotating cast of characters that change and develop through its seasons, going back and binging old seasons is an exercise in nostalgia and recognition. Bran becomes the Three-Eyed Raven in Season 6, but a binge of Season 1 will reveal that his raven-themed dreams were actually foreshadowing his transformation. When Ramsay Bolton finally gets his face chewed off by dogs, it’s cathartic to go back and watch his canine crimes knowing the karmic flair of his fate.
Before the dawn of streaming platforms, the only way to binge watch was to purchase or rent a box set of an entire season of a show the purchaser had probably already watched. Now that there are shows released with the express purpose of being binged, it’s natural that showrunners and TV writers would upgrade their game to work better for what is essentially an entirely new format of television.
The lesson learned from You and other successful streaming shows is that it’s sometimes not enough to write a show that captures an audience — it also must be delivered in the proper medium. Some shows are born to be binged. Others, not so much.
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