Ryan Broderick
Very funny that we've come so far from broadcast that people are outraged about this. Up until the prestige cable era, this was the rule for all TV shows. All of them had to more or less work as just audio. If you watch The Sopranos you can see the change happen across seasons.
DiscussingFilm
Netflix execs tell screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along” They also have thousands of micro-genres including “casual viewing” which is used for movies/TV that go down best when
