I really get that Hollywood is a business at the end of the day and that the people at the top want to make as much money as possible regardless of what anyone else wants. (bY the way you remember that storyline Sally had in Season 3 of Barry in which she created a brilliant show but her streaming service cancelled it because the algorithm said it was a failure after one day? That's the kind of people who don't want to pay writers.)

We're all consumers to them, not fans. They don't care about what we like as long as they consume thier product. The real reason the studios don't want to negotiate with the WGA is because they don't want us to see how rich they're getting of everybody else - the writers, the directors, the actors, the fans. I guarantee if they can find a way to use AI to watch the shows they create and make money off them they'll do it. (On a private note, part of me wonders if that line of programming let to Netflix creating Ozark, but that's a nother story.)

They've clearly forgotten their history. In 2007 when the last writers strike hit, the networks were still relatively on par with some of the creative shows on cable - there's an argument that at their peak, Lost and 24 were as great as say, Six Feet Under or Deadwood. AFter the strike ended, a lot of the networks ended up suffering as a result. Three of the greatest shows of the 2007-2008 season on ABC - Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who, and Pushing Daisies - never recovered from the strikes loss. Heroes collapsed on itself and NBC nearly completely collapsed. The networks have never recovered from the fallout of the 2007-2008 strike. But I guess they don't care any more. "How much better can you eat? What can't you but now that you couldn't then?"

I support the WGA and any guid that strikes with them. Last year it took them nearly 100 days to resolve it in favor of the writers. I give the studios two months - right around the time they have to start worrying about the new season - to buckle. I can like without Seth Meyers and John Oliver until then and I have more than enough stuff on my DVR to get through. Hey, maybe in the series finale of Barry, Bill Hader can go on a murderous ramapage through the network and cable heads at places like Waystar Royco? That's a series finale I'd watch