New media, I love you but you're bringing me down

Like I said, as soon as I say I like a show … and there might be a reason for that:

Schur describes a scenario in which a platform might promise a showrunner a $100,000 bonus for season one, $250,000 for season two, $500,000 for season three, and $1.7 million for season four. "So you're like, Holy shit. This is great!" he says. There was a catch. Many seemingly successful series began to vanish after just a couple of seasons. "What no one saw coming was they'd just kill the show before they ever had to pay that money out."

An anti-streaming campaign seems is afoot. Aubrey Plaza and Quentin Tarantino and Tom Hanks dragging on streamers in the same media cycle? Not a coincidence.

Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end of the Silicon Valley startup business model. Won't miss it.