That doesn’t mean nobody is watching it, of course, as the work from home culture has rather put a dent in the office watercooler chat.
With the sheer volume of shows and movies releasing it can also be blooming difficult to find any common ground with the tastes of your social circle, but from time to time a show is pushed out of the door and just sinks like a stone.
You’d expect that a series based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and starring the likes of Robert Downey Jr to get a lot more attention, but it’s out and so few people have seen it.
This show is The Sympathizer, which stars Hoa Xuande as a North Vietnamese spy who infiltrates the South Vietnamese army and has to flee to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War.
He continues to pass covert information to his masters, but must struggle with his growing sympathies for his new surroundings.
Also in The Sympathizer is Robert Downey Jr (we didn’t mention him earlier for nothing) in a multitude of roles, many of which are antagonistic.
That all sounds pretty fascinating, but not a lot of people have actually seen the show, which is on HBO.
The critics seem to like it, with it having a 90 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but perilously few people have shown up to watch it.
This has ticked off some people, who’ve taken to the internet to try and drum up support for a show they can’t believe ‘no one is talking about’.
People wish more folks were talking about The Sympathizer. (HBO)
Those who have seen The Sympathizer reckon ‘it’s really weird how little HBO is doing to promote it’ and that ‘it is so good’.
Others were excited to see Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh in the series, and said her star presence had ‘sold’ them on giving the show a go.
“This cast is STACKED, the soundtrack is incredible, why is no one watching or talking about it?” lamented another.
Someone else said the book the show was based on ‘haunted me for the last several years’, and since A24 had a hand in making this show that actually sounds like a good quality for things they’d want to adapt.
Still, sometimes a series will release and sink like a stone because that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
People divided as Netflix cancels ‘the best movie of all time’
There have been several new films coming out of the woodworks as of late and fans have been rejoicing.
But there’s also the other end of the spectrum where so many great shows and movies are being needlessly cancelled.
A seemingly huge contributor to this is the popular streaming service, Netflix.
And recently another film is reported to have been put on the chopping block.
The culprit?
Director Adam McKay, who has gone on to bin an amazing film idea in a bid to work on other projects, such as a climate-related production.
According to Deadline, this new climate change project has been getting all of his attention and will no longer be directing the Netflix movie Average Height, Average Build – which sounded like a fantastic watch.
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Not only will he not be going forward with directing it but no one will be taking his place – meaning that the project will be cancelled indefinitely.
And after reading its planned synopsis and star-studded cast, social media users are not happy about this decision.
With actors on the cast list such as Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams and Robert Downey Jr. the film seemed as though it was going to be the next best killer thriller for crime junkies.
It was planned to follow Pattinson, who would have been playing a serial killer who joins politics in order to change laws to be more murder-friendly so that he can get away with his crimes more easily.
Alamy)
Downey was also set to play a retired police officer, obsessed with the unsolved murders and hellbent on solving the case, but it becomes a struggle as the two men play a game of cat and mouse.
And fans cannot fathom why the film isn’t happening – and are not letting it off the hook.
One person wasn’t surprised by the news, writing on X ((formerly Twitter): “Netflix cancelling something Good is what we’ve seen before.
“They probably gonna bring 5 more movies in the same budget with absolute trash story.”
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Another added: “That would have been so cool,” while a third wrote: “Actually sounds interesting so not surprised it’s cancelled.”
One person was vengeful about it , writing: “They cancel this but greenlit the most average film Fincher could ever choose to make?”
And someone else commented: “Robert Patterson [sic] and RDJ in the same franchise would have been amazing.”
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