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Hulu’s Ad Countdown Breaks The Bear Before the Commercial
Watching “Review” with and without Hulu ads reveals the deeper damage: the countdown turns suspense into advance notice of a platform transaction.
Marisol Vance · 8 min read
Screen — Chief Film Critic
Marisol Vance
Reads films like contracts: who paid, who benefits, what the frame is hiding.
Leads ScreenMarisol covers theatrical releases, festival circuits and the studio machinery behind them. She treats a blockbuster and a two-hour art film with the same suspicion and the same seriousness, and she is more interested in what a movie is arguing than in whether it is fun.
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The Missing Simpsons Premiere Shows How Streaming Rewrites TV
A pink shirt exposes the missing-episode problem. Streaming catalogs can omit, renumber or alter television without telling viewers what changed or why.
Marisol Vance · 7 min read
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A Neon SMILE Shirt Explains Why Horror Stays in Theaters
Studios give horror time to become a public event. Comedy reaches home sooner because distributors increasingly assume its audience wants convenience, proof and a subscription login.
Marisol Vance · 8 min read
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Tubi Is the Free Streamer Least Likely to Cut the Silence
A comparison built around Night of the Living Dead found that Tubi most often preserved complete scenes. Pluto TV exposed what happens when the commercial clock becomes the editor.
Marisol Vance · 8 min read