How Netflix Envy Broke TV

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Vulture & New York Magazine

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Netflix broke the TV mold in 2013 with ‘House of Cards.’ Now, the streaming wars may have broken TV altogether. There’s so much stuff, a lot isn’t good, it’s confusing to find, sometimes disappears entirely, and, as the writers on strike will tell you, people making it aren’t getting paid the same as they once were. Vulture’s Josef Adalian tells Sam about how the race to compete with Netflix destroyed TV as we knew it, twisted viewers' expectations, and may lead us back to the cable bundles we thought we left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:38.5	Hey, you're listening to Into it from Vulture in New York magazine.
0:44.8	I'm your host, Sam Sanders.
0:47.0	And today, I want to talk big picture about the state of TV right now.
0:53.4	If you are like me, this era of streaming has become overwhelming.
0:58.6	There's too much to watch.
1:00.2	A lot of it isn't that good.
1:02.4	There are too many platforms to watch it on.
1:05.8	The writers who make it are on strike because they say they aren't getting paid enough for
1:09.9	their work.
1:11.2	The whole model feels broken.
1:14.4	How in the world did we get here?
1:17.1	I remember like 10 years ago or so.
1:20.2	Someone was saying that Netflix and streaming had ushered in this golden age of television,
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