What Netflix Has Done to Movies
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Will Tavlin on Hollywood, data and deception.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Will Tavlin to discuss how the Netflix model transformed film into the Typical Netflix Movie and how the company uses claims about data to deceive the public.
Will Tavlin is a New York-based writer who has written for n+1, Bookforum, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
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(Phil Barker / Future Publishing via Getty Images)On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Will Tavlin to discuss how the Netflix model transformed film into the Typical Netflix Movie and how the company uses claims about data to deceive the public.
Will Tavlin is a New York-based writer who has written for n+1, Bookforum, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
Paris Marx is joined by AS Hamrah to discuss the proposed Netflix-Warner Bros Discovery merger and what it might mean for the state of decline already facing modern cinema.
AS Hamrah is a film critic at n+1 and the author of Algorithm of the Night and Last Week in End Times Cinema.
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