Tag: HBO
With higher fees and more ads, streaming services like Netflix, Disney+...
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Purdue University
There’s one thing that television viewers can count on in 2024: higher fees and...
Pancakes won’t turn you into a zombie as in HBO’s ‘The...
Sheryl Barringer, The Ohio State University
In the HBO series “The Last of Us,” named after the popular video...
Apple, Disney and Netflix’s streaming battle isn’t winner-take-all
Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology and Ramon Lobato, RMIT University
With the recent launch of Apple TV Plus and the imminent arrival of Disney...
A happy ending for ‘Game of Thrones’? No thanks
Anthony Gierzynski, University of Vermont
With the final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” commencing, I imagine most fans are harboring hopes that things will...
Secret ingredient that made Netflix a world beater could lead to...
Martin Friesl, Lancaster University
Investors are anxiously waiting for Netflix’s half-year results, and for good reason. The share price of the TV-streaming giant has skyrocketed...
In defense of HBO’s counterfactual ‘Confederate’
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Fairfield University
In late July, HBO announced its forthcoming alternate history series “Confederate,” a show that will take place in a...
From ‘Sex and The City’ to ‘Game of Thrones’ to ‘Girls,’...
With our TV watching habits quickly becoming immune to large doses of tits and ass per episode, almost exclusively appealing to the male-gaze, a change was a comin’…
Poised to make its next big move, Netflix isn’t in the...
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
Netflix has been in the headlines a lot recently, and not in a good way.
There’s news about competitor Amazon launching...