Archive for the 'Television' Category


Maroon 5 & The Super Bowl

Is all publicity good publicity? It was a strange game, since the NFL’s ratings were resuscitated by the Chiefs and their passing attack, and this contest was fought on the ground, until the Rams realized that going to the air was their only chance of victory and then Brady aired it out and put the […]

Making Hits

Netflix makes hits. Streaming music services do not. The latest example of this is “You.” A failure on Lifetime, it’s a viral success on Netflix. As of two weeks ago, 40 million households had partaken of an episode within a month of “You” launching on Netflix. On Lifetime, it barely broke a million. Proving, once […]

Fyre Festival-The Netflix Version

Sure, Billy McFarland is a sociopath and a crook. But everybody working for him wanted to get paid. And everybody who bought tickets to the festival wanted to live the dream. This is not a music business story, even though it was first depicted as such. The movie is about what a bad guy Billy […]

The Sopranos

Now the criminals are techies. They hide in plain sight and get a pass from the government, because with billions of dollars they define the game. Like the Mafia used to, with a lot less cash. I was just watching the episode where Adriana gets whacked. Christopher leaves her T-Bird in long term parking at […]