Netflix’s Friends and Enemies
It’s becoming clearer than ever that not everybody roots for Netflix, despite the fact that the streamer papered Hollywood with money; revolutionized the TV industry; gave the world Bridgerton, Squid Game, The Queen’s Gambit, and Tiger King; and all but single-handedly invented the Olympic couch sport known as bingeing. Last month, when Netflix announced that it was losing a worrisome number of subscribers, its stock price took a dive, and many in the industry said sorry, not sorry. Today, Joy Press digs into the surprising schadenfreudethat’s attended the streamer’s stumble, not just from competitors but from some of Netflix’s own showrunners who’ve become frustrated by the penny-pinching, weird data obsessions, and general corporate-y vibe of what was once heralded as a radical enterprise. One showrunner tells V.F.that the message from execs now seems to be: “We actually are going to interfere…. We actually are going to start canceling stuff pretty expeditiously, and we actually are going to give you a gazillion notes based on our data. And we actually are going to appeal to the lowest common denominator audience. But we’re also not going to pay you as much as network television.”
Elsewhere in Hollywood, our chief critic, Richard Lawson,looks up in the sky and sees Tom Cruise’s new blockbuster, Top Gun: Maverick, soaring by; Anthony Breznican talks to Doctor Strange screenwriter Michael Waldron about the movie’s deepest secrets; British actor Wunmi Mosakudiscusses her deep dive into the American legal system in We Own this City on our podcast Little Gold Men; and Jessica Biel explains how Justin Timberlake came to be cast in her crime drama Candy—who knew they even knew each other?
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