Netflix Execs Deny Mandated Plot Repeats for Distracted Viewers: ‘So Offensive’

Netflix executives laughed off speculation that the streaming giant asks its film and TV writers to repeat the plot multiple times for distracted viewers.

Talk around Hollywood began after Ben Affleck and Matt Damon suggested that Netflix asked filmmakers to repeat “the plot three or four times” in the dialogue of their productions to account for passive audiences watching while on their phones. The comments, which they made while promoting their Netflix movie “The Rip” on Joe Rogan’s podcast...