Lmao "why does this show cost so much" like if this is your decision making process, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-07-05/amazon-ceo-asks-his-hollywood-studio-to-explain-its-big-spending

Also how does a show manage to get to $250 million while essentially copying another franchise's signature, but doing it so poorly that it actively hurts the rest of the show.

This is an argument against my own personal financial interests as a post production professional but: decide what it is you want to do BEFORE you shoot. Before!

This is so amazing. Not the least: we cant fucking squeeze by at $20mm an episode

I would like to read something about Hollywood production cost inflation. It wasn't terribly long ago (the 90s? 00s?) that whole-ass movies were being produced for what these people now claim it costs to do a couple episodes of bad streaming tv. Where's the money going.

it seems like much of hollywood has forgotten how to "figure out what you're making before you make it"