Must be better to be able to do it and take a tax deduction for any losses.
If it makes you feel better, I don't think you need to take his money to watch the show. I'm pretty sure it's the traditional model where he takes your money.
Even torrenting his shit is more than he deserves. I'll stick with the books anyway since the show has completely miscast the characters. Alex, for example, is meant to be balding and fat and middle aged ffs.
Your loss.
I'm just being snide. Accounting for movies and TV is I believe notorious for producing paper losses. I'd love to be able to produce my favorite shows, somehow both make money and get a tax loss.
I feel that streaming services do themselves a disservice by releasing their new shows all at one. It really cuts down on the amount of Internet buzz they generate, partly because its harder to talk about a show when people are wary of spoilers from people who have watched farther. It also means that the period of buzz rarely lasts more than a week or two, as opposed to the 10 weeks of buzz that HBO would get out of Game of Thrones when it was at its height, with each week's episode setting off more discussion.
Nothing wrong with that. As I said, I get the luxury of having a whole season of a show available to watch. With cable show that I like that aren't incredibly high profile, I tend to let them back up in my DVR for a while before starting a new season, so once I get started, I don't find myself having to wait a whole week for a new one.
