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Apple TV+ and Its 18 Emmy Nominations Take Over Apple's Homepage
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When new shows drop that I am interested in, I will pay to subscribe. Apple TV+ has had great quality, just not so much quantity. As others have previously mentioned, they don’t have the backlog that would entice viewers like D+ or Netflix.
But give me a second season of pretty much any of the shows they have previously released, and I will watch. Plus Masters of Air will defiantly get me to subscribe.
The Morning show was pretty good.
I hated Defending Jacob though. I stopped watching for a few weeks. Came back to it. Stopped again. Took me months to finish it. I think I kept going back because it SEEMED like it should be really good but it wasn’t. For me. I think that’s because the kid was so annoying and unlikeable. I could not possibly have cared less if he was guilty or not. If you don’t care about that central question the whole show becomes pointless and annoying. And the ending was such a cop out. Just so then can have another painful season (which I for sure won’t be watching this time… fool me once…)
Mythic Quest was a riot. Ted Lasso is also very enjoyable.
I hated Defending Jacob though. I stopped watching for a few weeks. Came back to it. Stopped again. Took me months to finish it. I think I kept going back because it SEEMED like it should be really good but it wasn’t. For me. I think that’s because the kid was so annoying and unlikeable. I could not possibly have cared less if he was guilty or not. If you don’t care about that central question the whole show becomes pointless and annoying. And the ending was such a cop out. Just so then can have another painful season (which I for sure won’t be watching this time… fool me once…)
Mythic Quest was a riot. Ted Lasso is also very enjoyable.
I haven't seen any of the TV+ series excepts for "Amazing Stories" and that show was hard to watch because it felt like the evening news; nothing but social just warrior politics, and almost non-existent story. Since the news is everywhere now, are there an TV+ shows that are not social justice warrior, and have though into making. a good escapism story?
I really like Dickinson. I'm from Amherst and lived down the street from her house, and the show is definitely my kind of style -- anachronistic, humorous, doesn't take itself too seriously, but is still genuinely poignant. Love the writing. Hailee Steinfeld is great, and I love the cast. Music is great.
What are you talking about? I haven’t seen this issue on my 2017 13” MBP or my wife’s brand new 10th Gen 2020 13” MBP.
Check out For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, Home Before Dark, Trying, and Ted Lasso. All of those are great escapes. See too. And Servant. It’s the exception rather than the rule with the SJW stuff. Amazing Stories is one of the worst offenders of that, and not a great a show to boot.
Awesome. Thanks for the kind response. I'm gonna go escape into some of those shows this week.
He didn’t mention Defending Jacob. You should check that out too. In fact, you might want to start with that.
You know what would be even better is if Apple was more forthcoming about the AppleTV+ numbers. That would put a mud hole into the haters more than Hollywood patting each other’s backs
Why should I? I didn't contest their efforts in the very first place. The admittance here is not on me for myself to make - that wasn't the whole debate with me to begin with. lol.
Defending Jacob was great except the changed vacation stuff and ending from the book. Pointless and way worse.
"Outstanding Narrator" and "Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance" and "Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music" are laughable to be offered as awards. I don't blame Apple, of course, because it's not their award ceremony but what a joke those 3 awards/nominations are! I'm surprised the Emmy team doesn't have an "Outstanding Performance By The Boom Mic Operator" or "Outstanding Performance For The Credit Roll" awards.
Congrats to Apple on the nominations. I really enjoyed The Morning Show, Servants, See, and Mythic Quest on ATV+.
I hope TMS wins the awards it has been nominated for but I will not be watching the awards show as I can't stand listening to the political speeches of celebrities.
I hope TMS wins the awards it has been nominated for but I will not be watching the awards show as I can't stand listening to the political speeches of celebrities.
Then why ask me to give credit where it's due in the first place?
To be fair, Netflix has to pay a whole bunch of that money to license the content that it provides from other studios.
I think Netflix has a budget of somewhere around $15 billion for its 300-ish original productions. As of the last report Apple had earmarked around half of that for about a dozen shows, although those numbers have almost certainly gone up by now. Apple is most definitely spending a lot more per show overall than Netflix is.
By most estimates, Netflix does spend about 80 percent of its budget on original content now, but on the other hand, everything Apple is streaming is 100% original content. While I seriously doubt that they're supporting their $6-billion-plus budget from subscription revenue at this point, there's clearly more of an investment for the future here, and unlike ongoing licensing costs to get content from other studios, once you've paid for the production of a show that you own, you're basically done.
It's kind of the same reason that Netflix has shifted to this model, and when you think about it, this is Disney's model as well — the only difference is that Disney owns a massive amount of original content right out of the gate, whereas Netflix has had to build up its own staple of original shows over the past seven years.
At some point, every company has to commit some of its existing resources to make sure it's going to get a longer-term payoff. Even the original iPhone cost Apple billions of dollars in research and development before it was ready to get a product out the door. Did that mean that Macs cost more than they otherwise would have? Perhaps, but really the alternative would be for a company to stagnate and never try anything new. There's no chance that Apple will heavily subsidize Apple TV+ from hardware sales in the longer term, as that's not a sustainable business model and the company's investors ultimately wouldn't stand for it. However, it's necessary to get the new service off the ground, and Apple has a history of playing the long game.
That I can understand.
Yet I personally never stated that Netflix's accomplishments where not well deserved, I stated it took them a lot longer to make their move than what everyone is stating - and I've proven it with facts (their initial business from VHS
VD:Streaming:creating their own shows). Yet I was quoted as IF I had sad "Apple TV+ must be the best thing ever because they got 18 nominations first year and acting like this has never happened before." - by you and another person; yet I never came across as stating or implying that.
And there is way more content being created / judged for Emmy's now than when Netflix first started producing, plus it is overall better content. There is far more competition now. This is a win for consumers and, like it or not, Apple is making some good shows which many people are enjoying. Comparing Emmy nominations from different periods of time is pointless.
