Hollywood is in serious trouble, and it's never going to recover. It's just about over.
Cinemas will soon be a relic of the past, like rotary telephones. Oh sure, a few will stick around for nostalgia, but they're only gonna be playing the all-time classics that people wanna see. Cinemas will essentially become Top 40 radio, forever playing Jaws and Back to the Future and Ghostbusters and stuff like that. There won't be any more new movies cause the studios are all gonna go bust. Fact is, we won't need new movies anymore.
AI used to be a threat to screenwriters, comic books artists....now it's a threat that can dismantle the entertainment industry to the core.
It's still in the early stages, but within a few years, it'll be there.
You'll just tell the AI what you want: "Give me a sequel to 1989 Batman, but more in line with the first movie, not Batman Returns. I want Keaton of course, but let's keep Billy Dee as Two-Face, and why not throw Sean Young in there as Catwoman, just for fun?"
And then....you get the movie. Written in the same style, using millions upon millions of movie scripts in the database as a template. The visuals will be impossible to distinguish from reality.
Any movie you can imagine...anything....it's coming. Want a better version of the end of Game of Thrones? Wanna watch BTTF with Eric Stoltz instead of Michael J Fox? Hell...why not BTTF starring you?
I know this sounds like Star Trek holodeck style nonsense...just a fantasy. Even a year ago I'd have agreed. But this IS gonna happen. The technology improves exponentially.
The genie is out of the bottle and it's never going back in. Hollywood, and by extension, the government, is gonna do anything they can to stop it, cause otherwise, that's their extinction, but its too late. It's all already begun. Just a matter of time.
In a few years, kids won't even understand the concept of "streaming" because it'll be obsolete, just like network television is now.
TL;DR......this wretched show is just a product of the death throes of the entire industry. It's a preview of what's coming though, a personalized self-insert product. Right now, only Leslie Headland gets to have an "Acolyte"....but soon, very soon....YOU get an Acolyte...and YOU get an Acolyte!! And YOU get an Acolyte!! Anything you can dream up.....it's all yours.