Living as Creatures

Living as Creatures

Netflix is Boring. That's by Design.

They are playing to the distracted viewer, but they can’t admit it. Pluribus shows why.

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Ben Christenson
Mar 31, 2026
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At the 98th Oscars, Conan O’Brian performed a modern retelling of Casablanca where he and Sterling K. Brown explained the plot in excruciating detail. “Of all the gin joints, all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine,” says O’Brien. “She being Ilsa, right?” replies Brown. It went on from there.

Netflix execs were not entertained.

According to Va…

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