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Andy Meek is a reporter who has covered media, entertainment, and culture for over 20 years. His work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Forbes, and The Financial Times, and he’s written for BGR since 2015. Andy's coverage includes technology and entertainment, and he has a particular interest in all things streaming. Over the years, he’s interviewed legendary figures in entertainment and tech that range from Stan Lee to John McAfee, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings.
Here’s the deal, to borrow one of President Biden’s folksy exhortations, about Year One: A Political Odyssey — HBO’s newly released documentary about the inner workings of his administration during its first year. Don’t sit down to watch this film expecting some kind of newsy snapshot of the Biden White House — beset as it …
The Mosquito Coast, a 7-episode Apple TV Plus thriller that debuted in April of 2021, was in many respects a perfect pandemic-era binge. It’s a show about escape and starting over, about reducing one’s existence to the protection of family — which might feel especially relevant to viewers who’ve spent months in lockdown and isolation, …
Another day, another batch of new Netflix releases to make our watch lists a little longer. Netflix on Wednesday debuted yet another slate of new titles that are available to check out now on the streaming service, part of a busy month that’s already given us everything from new K-dramas like Glitch and the final …
One aspect of the Netflix earnings report from Tuesday that didn’t get as much immediate attention as did the overall highlights of the quarter — like the better-than-expected subscriber additions and the overall snapshot of the company’s health at the moment — is the streamer’s plan to crack down on Netflix account sharing in earnest …
As of the time of this writing, the Mila Kunis-led drama Luckiest Girl Alive is one of the most-watched new Netflix releases on the streaming giant — in fact, it’s the #3 movie on the platform in the US right now. If you haven’t checked out the movie yet, here’s the basic gist: It tells …
Whoever prepared the latest shareholder letter that preceded Netflix’s earnings call for investors on Tuesday had a little bit of fun at their rivals’ expense. Because of the massive success of Netflix’s still relatively new series Dahmer, for example, the Q3 letter to shareholders — in addition to walking through a comprehensive overview of the …
Prior to the launch of Apple TV Plus back in November of 2019, I seem to recall several smug news reports from journalists tut-tutting about how Apple’s top executives were rumored to be meddling too aggressively in the streamer’s burgeoning content slate, sanitizing the forthcoming shows to the point that it sounded like the iPhone …
In The Curse of Bridge Hollow, one of the newest Netflix movies to debut on the streaming giant, Marlon Wayans plays a dad who hates Halloween and who has to team up with his daughter (played by Priah Ferguson) in order to save their town. The conflict in this Halloween-themed flick is that an ancient …
The thing I most love about Take 1, a new Korean music reality series that debuted on Netflix on October 14, is how it wraps a pretty meaningful and quite heartfelt Netflix release around a deceptively minimal premise. That premise is the following: As is stated in the opening moments of the 7-episode series (according …
“What did I just watch? Terrible dialogue and writing.” “Everyone is like a cartoon character.” “Plot holes as bad Swiss cheese.” These are just some of the many negative responses left on Rotten Tomatoes by people who streamed The Watcher, the newly released Netflix series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan — the same team, …
