Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Nilai Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking about the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery, which is the biggest story in the entertainment industry right now, and for good reason. It has pretty much everything you could want in a buzzy Hollywood saga.

Big names, big money, big drama. Right now, the winning voter is Netflix. The streaming juggernaut has so far won the bidding process for Warner Brothers, offering $83 billion for the movie studios, but not the cable channels. But Paramount Skydance simply won't go away, even though the official process is over.

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