Article 5MA33 Disney’s Turner & Hooch reboot: shouldn’t we let sleeping dogs lie?

Disney’s Turner & Hooch reboot: shouldn’t we let sleeping dogs lie?

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Joel Golby
from World news | The Guardian on (#5MA33)

This latest rehash by Disney+ is family-friendly and fine enough but plays out like telly commissioned by computer

I'm convinced, now, that 60% of shows are being commissioned not by a human, a skeleton wrapped in flesh and blood, but by an algorithm, a pulsing blue computer in a bunker server room beneath the depths of Disney. Executives - who previously read scripts, and gave feedback on them, and had ideas and thoughts - now exist only to descend into the temperature-controlled hangar where the Commissioning Computer lives. Enter," the computer says in an eerie voice, at once inside their brains and not: Do not be afraid."

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