**HBO Max: The Streaming Giant That’s Got the Whole World Binge-Watching** Alright, folks, gather ’round. We need to talk about the elephant in the room—or rather, the streaming platform that’s been hogging all the bandwidth. HBO Max, the brainchild of WarnerMedia, has taken the global stage by storm, and we’re here to dissect why it’s…
The Curious Case of the Vanishing Finale: Netflix’s Wayward Pines and the Global Art of Self-Cancellation By Our Cynical Correspondent, Somewhere Between Reykjavík and Recife When Netflix quietly yanked the third season of *Wayward Pines* from the platform last month—no press release, no commemorative montage, just a brief 404 where Matt Dillon’s worried face used…
Wayward Netflix, Wayward Pines: A Parable for the Streaming Apocalypse By Our Bureau Chief Emeritus, still technically on sabbatical in Geneva The news that Netflix has quietly shuffled *Wayward Pines*—that M. Night Shyamalan-produced fever dream about a town where time, ethics, and plot coherence all go to die—into its “Leaving Soon” carousel should have registered…
Twitch: The 24-H7 Coliseum Where Nations Go to Watch Each Other Stall By the time the sun rises in São Paulo, a Korean teenager is already 17 hours into a “Just Chatting” stream, explaining in near-perfect Portuguese why he prefers Brazilian memes to K-pop stans. In the same breath, 34,000 viewers from 112 countries vote…
Nicholas Hoult: The Quiet English Export Quietly Reshaping Global Pop Culture While the World Burns By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, still jet-lagged in the smoking lounge of existence If you squint past the streaming-service menus and algorithmic fog, you’ll notice that a lanky lad from Berkshire with the surname of a small but ferocious predator has…
In the grand geopolitical theatre currently starring climate refugees, crypto tsars, and whatever Elon Musk tweeted at 3 a.m., it’s easy to overlook a 61-year-old British actress quietly reminding us that time is less a straight line and more a wibbly-wobbly PR crisis. Yet Alex Kingston—yes, the same woman who once sprinted through Cardiff in…
Somewhere between a UN Security Council session and a Comic-Con queue, the planet’s streaming algorithms have flung open the doors of the multiverse and unleashed Marvel Zombies—five 30-minute morsels of animated carnage that have slithered onto Disney+ faster than a hedge-fund manager eyeing an emerging-market bailout. From Lagos to Lisbon, Seoul to São Paulo, audiences…
Martin Scorsese, the 82-year-old New Yorker who still looks faintly surprised every time he survives another awards season, has become a sort of secular patron saint of global cinephilia. From the neon back-alleys of Tokyo to the crumbling art-deco cinemas of Buenos Aires, his name is whispered with the same reverence once reserved for deities…
House of Guinness Cast: A Global St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Disney+ Cork, Ireland – Somewhere between a pint of plain and a corporate synergy meeting, Disney has decided the world needs another origin story. This time the brand is Guinness, the 264-year-old stout that has lubricated Irish wakes, Nigerian weddings and Tokyo salary-men’s karaoke…
PARIS—In a world still reeling from supply-chain collapses, crypto bankruptcies, and the curious resurgence of fascism as retro chic, Paramount+ has decided what the planet really needs is a nine-episode, $90-million argument about space helmets. The second season of “Halo,” streaming everywhere except the parts of Earth where broadband is still a rumor, arrives like…
Carrie Preston: The Accidental Global Emissary Who Proves the World Is Run by Side Characters By the time the sun rose in Singapore, Carrie Preston had already been trending in three languages and mistaken for a minor royal in a Manila group chat. By the time it set in São Paulo, she had inspired a…
Nobody Wants This Season 2: A Global Post-Mortem on the Show the Planet United in Rejecting By the time the closing credits rolled on the finale of Nobody Wants This, diplomats in five languages had already issued carefully worded statements distancing their governments from any knowledge of its existence. From Seoul’s fluorescent boardrooms to the…
