THB #161: Around The May Pall

Sometimes, you just don’t really want to write… but to get started writing, you just need to start writing… so… here we go…

Top Gun Maverick kinda shot its wad a couple weeks ago. There was a Doctor Strange movie sometime in the past… like before Ambhnny Trial… after… who knows?

Streaming is in this weird place… some great shows just finished… the last Emmy wave hitting the beach.

Netflix continues to be a punching bag for everyone who hailed it as the one true God just a few months ago. Crappy. Hard enough falling from heaven without the birds pissing on you in the way down to earth.

The entire Sunday night legacy schedule mostly cleared the way (double 60 Minutes, no John Oliver, NBC in repeats) for the American Idol closer last night… like it was 2010… Deadline’s chart for the night shows the scary results…

5.6 million people? And that is with a nationwide live feed and a replay in the west.

Yikes.

Friends in Cannes seem to be liking an unusual number of movies… but I have to wonder how…