the words weren't mine

Netflix has recently been dogged by rumours that the writers on its productions are told that they are creating “second screen” content – that is, one must assume that the viewer has the show on in the background, while they scroll through some feed on their phone. This is denied by Netflix and also by many jobbing writers, so may be literally false. But it is worth mentioning, since there can hardly be five minutes of this film’s 90 where there is nobody in the frame looking at their phone. To suppose that a documentary about people looking at their phones, broadcast on a platform that happily assumes its viewers are looking at their phones, could in fact puncture the balloon of a reactionary ideology seems, on reflection, ridiculous – whatever the director’s gender. read more

IMAGE: Theron Humphrey