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Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people actually watched. (arstechnica.com)

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Reportedly high budget has brought Apple TV+ a lot of prestige, but not a lot of viewers.

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[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You can't watch Foundation with any expectation of it matching the books. I said I wouldn't watch it but I broke down after I finished For All Mankind. The only thing that really bothered me is Gaal being so hysterical. Chill the fuck out girl.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't expecting it to. The visuals were stunning, and the actors were good, but the writing was atrocious, the plot devices annoying, and all of the characters were uniformly unlikeable - especially the main ones. Gaal wasn't the only one; maybe just the most extreme.

I forced myself to watch almost the entire first season, but rage quit when it got to the point when I spent entire episodes wanting to shout at the characters to stop bring so stupid.

It wasn't a bad adaptation, because the only thing it shared with the books were some names; I was expecting that. It was a bad show, with awful writers, and that I couldn't stand.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I sympathize with the wanting shout at characters.