RIP Dear White People. PLUS: The $150 mil Netflix film. AND: Recovery is back. Sorta.
Always Be Watching is written by Dan Barrett at a budget a smidge less than $150 million.
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Pop culture attracts a lot of ill-informed commentary and discussion. Part of what got me blogging about TV a lifetime ago (that would be in the early 00s, kids) was the desire to elevate conversation around the medium. Little did I realise how much TV would pull itself up by the bootstraps during that time.
This week Joker is hitting cinema screens amid…