Said Stephen Galloway, dean of the film school at Chapman University in California, quoted in "How Harry and Meghan ‘scammed’ Hollywood/The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are leaving California after deals with Netflix and Spotify failed, experts say. Is their brand dead?" (London Times).
Brilliantly scammed? What did they do that was brilliant? Maybe Galloway is a little scammed. He's proclaiming brilliance when all he is seeing are foolish executives falling for a man who inherited royalty. Or is Meghan brilliant — not brilliant at producing shows, but perhaps brilliant to see a way to bamboozle executives with royalty for a few years until the ludicrous inability to deliver the product became crushingly obvious?
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Yes, I suspect the "dean of the film school at Chapman University in California" is indeed more than a bit scammed himself. A scammee?
DEI, the series. Episode: Glamboozled.
Our defeat of the British was the greatest event in the political history of the world.
I have never understood why any American would be interested in any so-called royal person. Thieves and bums.
The ultimate DEI move for Netflix was bagging the “black” Canadian “victim” married to a prince. If I invented her and submitted a script to Netflix they would laugh at the absurd premise of the story.
Also a script can’t have the black heroine be the villain too.
If there is any brilliance at all, then the question would be what was the intended return on investment, because, as noted, it was never because brilliance in telling or producing a story was evident.
After a week or so, this storyline will be just a bit tiresome. As it's been said, if the Brits didn't have royalty they'd have to invent them just to keep their minds off what's really important.
Maybe he is using the word brilliant as it is used by the British. It means something different than how we Americans use the word. Brilliant is much more casually used and doesn’t necessarily mean genius level as we is it. It is also used ironically by the British to mean the opposite. Galloway is British and is writing for the London Times. I think you are misinterpreting the word her Professor.
Maybe he is using the word brilliant as it is used by the British. It means something different than how we Americans use the word. Brilliant is much more casually used and doesn’t necessarily mean genius level as we use it. It is also used ironically by the British to mean the opposite. Galloway is British and is writing for the London Times. I think you are misinterpreting the word here Professor.
…Netflix makes and streams content but to a certain extent Netflix is in finance loosely referred to as a strategic asset. It’s a transfer agent that allows politicians to reap rewards. Much like the traditional ‘book deal’ scheme where big advances go to the pol for a book nobody ever really buys, only Netflix can handle payouts magnitudes larger. The royals didn’t dupe Netflix the royals were supposed to be leftie American royals, spreading leftie messages like a farm honey wagon. It didn’t work…
…I suppose like always they have to try and mould the narrative about their Amexit. Can’t help themselves
Well, now that Meghan is gone, who is going to cater to jam customers who can't do math? She sold her jam for "$12 each or $42 for a set of 3"
The cooking episode where she dropped the pasta in the sauce and poured boiling water over the whole thing will be remembered in royal lore for 1,000 years. Right up there with the Battle of Hastings.
…don’t knock the jam math. At the general store grandpa couldn’t sell lye soap for 8 cents a bar so he built an end cap with a barrel, piled up the soap with a sign for 3 for a quarter and sold every damn one so the story goes…
I suspect that Harry and Meghan are promoting the story of their “failure” in Hollywood to smooth their move back to the United Kingdom.
They are going to be non-working royals, which really is the best kind of royalty to be.
I wonder if Harry will apply for the $2,600 stipend paid to persons who self-deport. It may seem crass to take the money, but he probably meets the qualifications and can use the cash. And at this point, who cares about crass?
Humans, as a rule, will tend to stand in line to be scammed. Once they see many people doing it, they too want to join in. FOMO. They must be a part of it. The scam. Or call it the fraud. Because even when our mind tells us something is not right, we choose to believe our hopes more than our reality.
That's how you get a Barack Obama elected by millions of people, many of whom fainted at the sound of his voice, the rest walking around with a strange "I'm happily drugged" look in their eyes. I'm sure Myers-Briggs has an identifier for this type of person.
"There was no proof from the beginning that these people knew how to produce material that people wanted to watch"
I have a problem with the "no proof" standard.. If proof were required in every case before an investor takes a risk with someone or something, then everywhere would be Europe*. I'd have worded this "no evidence," or, less legalistically, "no sign."
* Except about climate change: here, Europe is all-in, and economic risk be damned.
The Royals are merely Britain's most valuable tourist attraction. Once Harry rejected the title, he stopped being even that. If he were smart (and I'm surprised Meghan wasn't smart about this), he would have realized that his window of opportunity in America was short and he needed to use this opportunity to set himself up long term.
My best guess is Harry and Meghan made the mistake of believing their own bullshit.
I wonder what Mr. Galloway thinks about the Obamas getting paid by Netflix for ????
There is nothing brilliant about this story of denouement. A member of the royalty traded his power and prestige to marry a commoner, at a time in history where the racial aspects commanded top dollar, as representative of another triumphant stage of fallen empire. It was transactional and exploitative, race-hustling and Woke. But as in many cases, the dogs won't eat the food. Get Woke, Go Broke; Good Old Hollywood.
Yesterday I said female C Suite execs are usually bad at their jobs. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps to Meghan and Carol Edelkoff and Janisse Quiñones their "job" isn't contained in their organizational mission statement, to them their job is to scam crap.
They're doing a great job. Forget everything I said.
Ah. The Duck and Douchess of Sussex in the news again. Ho hum.
Is Galloway a Brit too? If so, that would explain brilliant. Everything is brilliant in the UK, even stuff that is terrible.
Eventually all oil wells, gold mines and royal couples with dirt to sell all run out of product to sell.
I'm not sure they didn't scam themselves. The amount of work they refused to do was trivial. Can't be bothered to show up and talk for a day for a podcast. Can't be bothered to be filmed for a week... That could have lasted much longer than it did. Now the word is out.
Have ICE help them to the door.
Luck is often confused with brilliance, and if you have been born into the British royal family, no matter how awful growing up may have been, you are lucky.
She taught the world how to move pretzels from one bag to another bag.
And this is the thanks she gets!?
Its not that M&H were so smart, its that Hollywood was so stupid. The men in the Royal Family - and this goes back to King Edward - have poor judgement when it comes to women. If they're not going to Epstein Island, or falling in love with American Divorcees, they're mooning over their completley mediocre mistress.
Hopefully, they'll go back to England and get a divorce. No wait, on 2nd thought I hope they stay together. if they divorce we'll get endless "Look at Harry's new bird" and "What is life like for Megan now?" articles. No, let them stay in England and stay Married.
England screwed the pooch when they didn't get rid of the Windsors after Queen Liz died and import the Norwegian or Danish royal family. George I was imported from Hanover. So its not like England hasn't done this before.
Or given their loves of POCs, why not import some Nigerian royalty and make them Kings of England.
"they're mooning over their completley mediocre mistress."
Nell Gwyn was the opposite of mediocre. Wittiest hussy ever 'twas.
The UK should insist on full, modern, immigration protocol. M&H must first enter the EU from Morocco, Algeria, Libya, or Syria. Then spend a week in a French immigrant camp. Then cross the Channel in a RIB or a clapped-out fishing boat.
Netflix took a gamble that H&M were going to deliver some tangy royal gossip. This shit sells tabloids in the UK and the commonwealth. H&G’s brilliant scam was letting Netflix believe that this what they were going to get instead of Meaghan’s recipe for dog shit flavored cookies.
The Obamas scammed Hollywood better
"We shan't work together again."
Temujin: “ Humans, as a rule, will tend to stand in line to be scammed.”
Except for communists. They get scammed first. Then they stand in line. Hopefully just a food line, not a line that ends with Bob Hoskins closing a door behind you. CC, JSM
What the heck--they were just taking a page from the Barack and Moochelle scambook. Flim flam has a market in Hollywood.
The Royal Scam
In a few years the duo will be run out of England by the muslim hordes that are taking over.
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