Streamers Want You To Dumb Down Your Film and TV Ideas:

In her interview, Bateman discussed a range of ideas in Hollywood, but one quote about storytelling shook me to my core.

Bateman said, I ve heard from showrunners who are given notes from the streamers that This isn t second screen enough. Meaning, the viewer s primary screen is their phone and the laptop and they don t want anything on your show to distract them from their primary screen because if they get distracted, they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off. I heard somebody use this term before: they want a visual muzak. When showrunners are getting notes like that, are they able to do their best work? No.

This explains a lot, actually.

via instapundit.com

This certainly doesn’t apply to LWJ’s and my favorite TV fare these days — British mystery series on Britbox or Acorn. A lot of the plots, I’m not even sure exactly what is going on, but I have to keep watching. It’s a fine line, though. There’s not understanding what’s going on, and there’s not caring what’s going on. ICYMI there’s a new season of Unforgotten coming up!