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Solid_Snark t1_j82seo1 wrote

I saw a YouTube review that covers this well.

If you have a character that is a rude jerk, you need a moment of growth where they learn and realize the error of their ways and, if they don’t change, they at least show a moment of empathy to their mocked victims… Velma’s character has no growth. She starts out a rude jerk and continues being a rude jerk throughout.

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gotpeace99 t1_j82jye5 wrote

There’s a guy I think that does this now, I don’t know his name and I think he promotes a cleaning product and when something is clean, he goes "WOOP!”. It still exists with that guy. His commercial comes on a few times.

And to be honest, influencers, Instagram ads, the Instagram shop is also selling us bullshit that we don’t need as well.

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ForgivenessIsNice t1_j82diy1 wrote

>west coast will be grumping that they aren't home from work and ready to watch a show at 5pm.

100% false. They have HBO Max. They can watch it when they get back. Only a few boomers who still watch on the TV channel rather than Max would complain.

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Ferahgost t1_j82amiz wrote

It’s a fine show, nothing special but not nearly as terrible as people make out. As a Scooby doo fan from my childhood I don’t really think of it as being Scooby doo, but I can appreciate a different take on the characters. Regardless, it doesn’t effect my enjoyment of the old shows

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ijakinov t1_j822wu6 wrote

HBO has historically been a channel that most people primairily get to watch movies commercial-free on cable/satelite and probably still is. HBO shows are critically acclaimed but you aren't seeing massive viewership via linear in the past two decades apart from a handful of shows, especially in recent years with streaming. Most of the viewership is happening on streaming nowadays for the people interested in the shows. The Last of Us only had around ~1M viewers on linear whereas had millions more viewers on streaming.

So to answer your question what's happening 6-8PM is that they are showing movies. Movies that are likely the primary reason why a lot of people are subscribing to and using the linear channel.

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