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Much has been made about how streaming services like Hulu and Netflix have changed the way we watch TV. The ability to binge watch shows like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black has changed how we view things like pacing and tone. What’s been less discussed is how it changes our perceptions of older shows that we’ve already watched (and rewatched) countless times.
Over at Slate, writer Ben Blatt explores how Seinfeld, recently made available on Hulu, changed over the course of nine seasons, an evolution that was easy to miss watching the show week to week or even on a season-by-season basis. For a show about nothing, in which the status quo remained almost entirely the same for the duration of its 180 episodes, a lot changed, it was just these changes happened ever so subtley. As Blatt points out the show got quicker, adding more and more scenes over the years, secondary characters got more time to shine and Kramer, a distinct fourth banana at first, rose to the forefront. It just goes to show, even as something stays steadfastly true to itself, change is going to happen, one way or the other.
In other news…
Not everything Netflix touches turns to gold. Take, for example, the insulting and sexist email sent out on behalf of the streaming service listing a series of rom coms and sports movies for couples to watch on Wednesday’s “Day Without Sports.” [Jezebel]
Nathan Lane is the latest actor to join the cast of American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson. He’s been cast as Simpson’s attorney F. Lee Bailey. [NYP]
Confused by the upcoming computer game-turned-feature film Warcraft? Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming fantasy flick. [io9]
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