Like I said in its thread, not a surprise. It had a lot of issues, least of all, really bad timing and unnecessary focus on political strife (which was barely in the comic).
The Target audience shouldn't know what Land of the Lost is. Marley Shelton's obsession with Land of the Lost in Bubble Boy was irregular and atemporal. Even with the early 90s remake, or the 2009 movie with Will Farrel puts the franchise beyond the limited recall of the monkeys buying soap and changing their providers because of traditional broadcast advertising. PS... I saw Hurley on Ghosts in the back ground mumbling with the chorus. The coolest guy from Lost, is down and out. Obviously Sawyer was the coolest, but cool is actually a shitty thing to be in the real world. Nicest? Hurley was just a stand up guy. (Earning thousands of dollars a week to stand there and look like you're still dying of Cholera is hardly down and out, but there's an expectation of leading man potential from this bloke, even with his atypical frame, that he is not living up to.)
Doesn't change the setup. Just the advertising. Never saw it. And yet there are those of us old enough to remember the original who are still young enough to be the target audience of whom you speak. We may be middle-aged, but we have school-age kids and mortgages, nonetheless. Unless you meant Target, where they would be buying the soap.
Middle aged is 30. Exactly thirty. No more, mo less. If you were 8 years old in 1974, then you are no longer middle aged. Targeted catheter advertising is all "we" get.
Showtime's Joan River "bio-series", The Comeback Girl, has been cancelled before it even got going. Evidently no one secured the rights to River's life from Melissa Rivers.
Interesting... That would seem to be kind of a Step #1 no-brainer to acquire before beginning a project, one would think. Someone wasn't paying attention...
Don't know. Haven't seen it myself (and don't plan to) but from what I have seen of it, it looks like the stupid brainless kind of "entertainment" that draws large crowds on Netflix (IMO), showing new and innovative ways of killing desperate people. Only in Korean. And drawn out across 9 episodes.
My wife and I watched this, and it's rrally good. It's more than just different ways to kill people. Spoiler All the people there are in major debt, needing money to help family members with surgery/disease, needing money to bring family from North Korea, etc. As it progresses, there's a lot of ethical questions on whether to continue or not, because if the people leave, each dead person will get a certain amount for their family, but the winner wins the whole prize. There are a lot of sad scenes, and while some of the contestants are depraved and evil, many are sympathetic... like one who is trying to bring her mother from North Korea and reunite with her younger brother who is in a shelter at that time. There's even one who is in it because they are dying and just want a chance to win so their family is set... they are dead anyway, so taking the chance to be less of a burden and actually set their family up for life is preferable than just slowly whittling away.
Squid Game is popular because there's a really likeable lead and people really are desperate to do whatever it is to get out of debt. It's very relevant.
I lost interest in the second season. I only stuck around for the first because I was enjoying the scenes on the station.