Apple really wants all of their show names to be confusing: Severance, Servant, The Savant. WHICH ONE ARE YOU WATCHING?

Until the premiere they change the title to just Savant. They love a name with an S: See, Servant, Swagger, Suspicion, Severance, Slow Horses, Shining Girls, Surface, Shrinking, Silo, Sugar, Sunny, Strange Planet...

Tim Cook must wish he'd been called Sim Cook.

At this point, pretty much every A-list name in Hollywood has a high-profile project with Apple, except for Timothee Chalamet.

Don’t forget the movies: Swan Song, Sharper, Spirited

Spellbound, Still... Whenever you see a new show or movie with an S in Production Weekly, it's possibly for Apple. Or SApple.

They should rename the service Apple S+

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I actually read it as Servant and got excited that they’re making a spin-off. Now I’m disappointed.

that can't be, Apple uses child labor and doesn't repatriate their overseas earnings. 'Hollywood' wouldn't get in bed with such loathsome characters.

The only certainty I have regarding the media market is that Hollywood is going to bed with Apple more and more. Apple gives them what they want: "freedom", stability and, most importantly, infinite money.

Schmigadoon.

yeah, that infinite money can be really appealing, even if you have to be a hypocrite to get it.

I’ve been watching Apple’s streaming service for the last couple weeks, and man, a lot of their stuff just isn’t very memorable. You have all these big name actors, yet the projects themselves aren’t worthwhile except for a couple.

Their first FAMK was great but S3 left a lot to be desired...lol

I'm currently binging "Wealthy White People are Fucking Crazy," season 5.

AppleS

https://youtu.be/3vuT8ki9yM4?t=129

I’m just curious if you zealously point out the hypocrisy of the other side of the aisle as well

I've liked a lot of their stuff, but maybe theyre in 'greenlight everything' mode now. Would make sense to grow the library.

Yall keep brining more examples when I think there can't possibly be more lol

Sted Lasso

>“Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?” that detailed a woman known as “The Savant,” an investigator whose job is to take down the country’s most violent men before they can carry out large-scale attacks.

are you serious with this shit man?

first, did you find that 'zealous'?

second, why does that matter? let's say i've never said a bad word about a Republican in my life... does that change the validity of what I said?

You went out of your way to point out something you perceived as hypocritical with a political undertone out of context and in response to a completely apolitical comment. So yeah, I think that hints at some zealotry. And the second part of your question doesn’t make sense, you just said something bad about democrats (in Hollywood) so I wouldn’t be surprised if you never said a bad thing about republicans in your life. My point is that you’re taking pot shots at one side of the aisle out of the clear blue to make a point and I’m asking you if you’re an equal opportunity sniper taking pot shots at republican hypocrisy. It’s an honest question, maybe you are. Maybe you’re a crusader against hypocrisy and if you were, I’d respect that. I suspect that’s not the case but happy to be wrong.

Succession is on Season 4, not 5

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i understand what you're asking me, and i'm telling you it's irrelevant.

i did 'take a shot' at hollywood hypocrisy. if you want to tag that as political go ahead i guess, it's adjacent maybe. Was really commentary on how that tend to be preachy rather than about any specific political issue.

if you want to talk "crusader", shall we discuss your apparent need to rush in to their defense with your 'please sir, tell me you are the Republican operative I hope you will be, so i can attack the messenger rather than have to address the message', lol.

At least the production values can make it for them to be enjoyable

Oh I’m just crusading against bullshit one shot at a time like you, I guess…

There have been instances of China essentially barring earnings from leaving the country. It’s also in many cases an investment to begin manufacturing there since you’re often responsible for machinery especially if it’s specialized. This means you either leave your machines or they just copy everything when you move out. This isn’t to defend Apple though, I’m more so saying they’re attempting to move to even cheaper labor markets, but they have to do it slowly without rocking the boat too much. Workers rights in China are still a joke in many cases, but there have been some improvements in factory quality and worker protections. There are even more exploitable places Apple wants to access.

Realistically China has gotten to ethical and expensive to product Apple products there. They want somewhere more exploitable.

Nike has the same issue, but to an exaggerated affect. Sure the factory probably doesn’t have or can’t work with the same material supplier Nike used, but they can get damn close. There are some insane quality fakes out there.

China has also been looking to shift to more specialized forms of manufacturing like semiconductors.

I watch a crap ton of tv, like 5-10hr a day, and Apple is prob 2nd to HBO with some of the best shows out over the last couple years.

I do agree though that the Jennifer Aniston one with a bunch of famous folks kinda fell off, I never bothered watching the 2nd season.

They haven’t had Jon Hamm for even longer

We have a winner

I have a feeling i will be enjoying Grace Randolph's review more than actual snow 😁

I watched an episode of Shrinking yesterday.

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Smorning show

He is on the new season of The Morning Show. It was announced shortly after that ad.

Oh nice, excited to see what Timothée Chalamet is going to be in for Apple

Shantaram, the most underrated of the bunch

Assuming a premise like this only appeal to bored stay at home moms, they probably weren't banking on any significant male viewership.

I think they're still trying to cast Jessica Chastain as a this smart sexy can-do woman like they did in Ava, miss sloane and molly's game.

Two of those movies were based on true stories though.

So they should lie?

Should lean into the mythology. They are a company called Apple so why not make a show called Snake?

so you disagree about the Hollywood hypocrisy I mentioned?

a much simpler argument can be mad, for instance why should the US Government be getting a piece of a transaction that was sourced, manufactured, and sold outside it's borders in the first place?

point is, none of that matters for what i was saying - which was simply highlighting the Hollywood hypocrisy, regardless of how right or wrong they my be on the underlying topic.

Maybe Hamm will costar

Shrinking

I think they have a lot of great stuff but the seams are starting to show, it feels like they're casting bigger and bigger names to hide the faults of the scripts they decide to produce. Extrapolations is laughably bad.

Well at least every studio stopped making shows with “ish” at the end of their title

Liaison

The Shrink next door

Black Bird

But instead he’s called Tim Apple

Why do you say it like a negative for her play those roles? She was fantastic in Miss Sloane and Molly's Game

They have a ton of shows you likely haven't seen that definitely fit the "big names but not memorable" category. Hell I'd even put The Morning Show in there and that's one of their most high profile shows.

...and it's cancelled.