'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000 - eviltoast
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      Doesn’t another distributor own the rights to Suits, and Netflix just pays for streaming rights? Shouldn’t the owners of the rights be paying the writers?

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    This is even more insane than finding out the creator and showrunner for Squid Game made $100k for it.

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      Does it get better? I made it to the second season and it started getting very formulaic. Client is sympathetic, fraud lawyer takes pity, he’s wrong, cynical lawyer saves the day, makes some sacrifice so you know he’s really a good guy. Introduce someone threatening to expose fraud lawyer now and then.

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    And unions are still not seen as a good (let alonr important) thing by many americans…

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    Proportional to the writers’ effort in the final few seasons, I suppose.

    In all seriousness, that’s pretty fucked up.

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    In all fairness, based on the accuracy of how courts are portrayed in Suits, the writers spent a there from 10 to 15 minutes writing this. Pretty impressive pay.

    source: watched the entire series and loved it