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May 23, 2018
Alex Shephard
What Netflix’s Obama Deal Says About the Future of Streaming
In the 1990s, HBO disrupted entertainment by proclaiming, "It's not TV, it's HBO." In 2018, Netflix is taking the opposite approach.
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In a better world, David Bowie played Elrond in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings.

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