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The Playlist: The Partner (2022)
The progression of the stories is interesting
I like how each founder's "origin story" becomes more erratic and unbelievable as time progresses. You can tell that a lot of these stories (like the casino scene and the restaurant scene) were totally made up just to give the founders story extra drama. Just like any tall tale, the founding of any large company eventually becomes a mythology of it's own where the facts are stretched to help the story along.
It reminds me of a lot the business "foundation" podcasts I listened to on Spotify, where the CEO tells an idealized story of how the company was founded and the worker bees who made personal sacrifices to build the company are ignored. Some good examples of that are shows like that are "How I Built That", which is hosted by Guy Raz and produced by NPR.
The End Is Nye (2022)
Not the Bill Nye of old
I really miss the "old" Bill Nye of the PBS era, where he taught science in a straightforward and easy-to-understand manner without political spin. Alas, this Bill Nye has been gone for some time now.
This is more of the preachy "we're all doomed if we don't change" Bill Nye that we've seen from his recent Netflix specials. I guess that this show is OK if you like that kind of thing, but I'd imagine that most people are sick of hearing that the sky is falling by now. I know that I am.
I'm hopeful that future episodes will be more educational and less activist. Based on the first episode, anyway, this is a show that only Greta Thunberg would love.
Ascension (2014)
I just couldn't buy the premise of this show
Sorry, SciFi, but I really had serious problems believing a story about 600 of the supposedly world's brightest people getting trapped inside of a fake space station (spoiler alert!) and not being able to figure that out after 50 years. Sure, I guess that most of the main characters were too busy going to the beach and trying to screw each other to notice, but you would think that someone in Engineering would have noticed that they weren't actually moving at some point.
I was also confused why a spaceship launched in the early 1960's had laptop computers that look they came from the 1980's, but that was easier to swallow than the original premise of the show.
I'm kind of glad that they didn't do a second season of this show. I can't imagine how it would be better than the first.