Posted on 04/07/2023 9:05:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Hollywood Reporter and its at-large editor and veteran reporter Kim Masters are the last places one would expect to see anything even hinting that catering to LGTBQWERTY sensibilities might explain poor performance with audiences. Hollywood may be the gay-friendliest place on Earth, after all.
That must be why it took almost 2,500 words in this long article on troubles at Amazon Studios before the subject of discarding the system of audience ratings was introduced. Amazon's Prime Video is the greatest rival of Netflix and spends enormous amounts of money seeking "tent pole" series that will cause people to want to subscribe or renew their subscriptions. Yet Netflix dominates Prime when it comes to the most popular streaming series.
It seems that the problem with letting audiences tell them what they like (and presumably making decisions on what to make and release) is this:
Another complaint is that Sanders [head of television programming] relies heavily on feedback from focus groups, which tend to favor broad and less inclusive programming. Several Amazon insiders say the reliance on testing and data led to a clash late last summer, when an Amazon executive said in a marketing meeting for the series A League of Their Own that data showed audiences found queer stories off-putting and suggested downplaying those themes in materials promoting the show. Series co-creator Will Graham became greatly concerned about bias built into Amazon's system for evaluating shows, which multiple sources say often ranked broad series featuring straight, white male leads above all others. One executive calls A League of Their Own "a proxy for how diverse and inclusive shows are treated."
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I was loving Hawaii CSI with the beautiful background setting of Hawaii. Then toward the end if the first episode two women sexually assault each other. I was shocked. It wasn’t necessary for a great storyline and frankly, I felt ambushed, it happened so quickly. I turned it off. I will not be ambushed by these queers on my own tv in my own living room in my own home! With Prime’s price climbing, I’m really close to dumping them. One more nasty woke ambush and they lose a customer.
You can bet that everyone one of these streaming services has developed software to track what their audience is watching, what scenes they fast-forward, and at exactly which moment they gave up on a series.
I'm certain that HBO knows that I skipped forward through the gay male love scene in the otherwise entertaining "Last of Us."
I’m on a whole slew of streaming services and except for Amazon Prime which has saved me many $$$ in shipping, all are free.
I find the sheer volume of films available to be amazing.
There seem to be a wholebunchalotta stinkeroos versus the occasional worthwhile movie....and that’s even before wedding out the alphabet garbage.
wedding S/B weeding
You get 20 minutes into a film and you notice two dudes are talking and have steady eye contact....
I do Andy Griffith and Columbo reruns.
I have spent two years on brit box watching old series and films.
I dumped netflix after getting surprised in the midst of a number of series with unusual subplots involving sexual proclivities.
I am also purchasing older series and films and renting them from the library. I hold the line
Just watched Easter Parade last evening for free on a streamer. Only problem is that the show stopped occasionally and the scene had to be found and restarted.
So...they actually know when I stop watching a movie/series and I don't return to finish it. Which always happens when two guys or two womens kiss.
It would be one thing if the stories were merely “inclusive” of “diverse” people and situations. But most of what gets produced is heavy-handed, condescending preaching to the mainstream, and virtue-signaling about the nobility of the perceived LGBT victims and their fake religion.
One show that actually handled very well the issues of gay and bi people within a straight family and community was Schitt’s Creek. It was hilarious and clever, with interesting costuming, settings and story lines for the majority straight characters as well as the “diverse” ones. Over five seasons, most episodes that dealt with “LGB” characters (there were no discernable “T’s”) were tolerable to straight people until near the end of the series, after the show had earned and unexpectedly large audience and quite a few awards.
The number of trans-identified persons in the U.S. is currently 1.6 million (against 325M total population) among persons age 13+ (puberty), and concentrated at the lower ages due to mass hysteria, political pressures, and the foolishness of youth. Not all trans people continue with it or go all the way with hormones and surgery.
Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law:
How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
Once Rock grew the mustache we should have all figured out he was a swish. That show should have been called “McMillan and Beard.”
It used to be called “jumping the shark”. Now it’s “throwing perverse sex at the screen”.
I also didn't want to watch the S&M of the D.A. and his wife.
#36 Around the same time as the Sanctuary series was on there was Eureka and Warehouse 13 and they went all in for obama and that killed the shows for me.
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