🎬 Wednesday's back at the typewriter — this time in Paris

Wednesday — Netflix's gothic Addams Family series — has just wrapped its third season. For context: Season 1 became the most-watched English-language show in Netflix history, Season 2 cracked the all-time top 10. The bar is very much set.

Season 3 filmed across Paris and Dublin, and the new cast additions are genuinely interesting: Eva Green joins as Aunt Ophelia, Lena Headey steps in, and Winona Ryder reunites with Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton — their first collaboration since Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

No release date yet, but production is a wrap. The algorithms are warming up.

Via Variety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgFNlnr2O8A

🎬 Fincher is done with Netflix

Six years, three films. David Fincher isn't renewing his Netflix exclusive when it expires next year — and he's not signing one elsewhere, leaving the door technically open.

The final project under the deal: *The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth*, a Tarantino-scripted spinoff of *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* starring Brad Pitt. IMAX Nov. 25, streaming Dec. 23, per Bloomberg.

He's not alone — Baumbach, Levy, the Duffers have all moved on to other studios. Netflix's era of locked-in auteurs is quietly closing.

Tarantino wrote the Cliff Booth script, passed on directing it, and handed it to the one filmmaker he trusted — who happened to be a Netflix exclusive. Sony's Tom Rothman publicly lamented losing the sequel. __The exclusive's up next year, Tom.||

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🎬 Olivia Colman married a basket — and has zero regrets

A medieval fisherwoman, shunned by her entire village, commissions a wicker husband. Wicker premiered at Sundance and is already notorious for its erotic scenes set to a Taylor Swift cover — Colman opposite Skarsgård, whose woven body was built by Wētā Workshop (*Lord of the Rings*, no CGI).

Colman on the script: "The only way you can sell it is by having a picture of Alex as a very sexy basket." Skarsgård, usually at home in dark roles, found tenderness the hardest part. The mask was glued to his face — every expression had to be tripled just to register.

Beneath the Monty Python absurdity, a real conversation about marriage and patriarchy. "Two souls being kind to each other," says Colman — one of whom is made of twigs.

Variety

💸 Iran, Tether, and an 84% overlap

USDT — the dollar-pegged stablecoin — was built for frictionless payments. A new Senate report says that friction-free quality works just as well under sanctions.

Sen. Blumenthal examined 846 wallets tied to Iran and its proxies: 84% used USDT almost exclusively — to stabilise Iran's currency, fund militant groups, and buy drones. Before 2024, Tether reportedly failed to consistently freeze flagged wallets.

Tether says it's frozen nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year and argues blockchains offer more transparency than cash. Blumenthal wants the Justice and Treasury departments to investigate anyway. The dollar Iran is officially cut off from keeps arriving — just tokenized, per The Verge.

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 02

🏠 Apple's home hub finally gets an October launch date
🎬 Wednesday Season 3 wraps — Paris edition, somehow
🎬 Fincher walks away from Netflix after six years
🎬 Olivia Colman romances a wicker basket, no regrets
💸 84% of Iran-linked wallets ran on Tether, Senate finds

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🚁 DoorDash Air is launching in northern California — with Chipotle and Popeyes on board

The number worth retelling: under five minutes from restaurant to door, based on early tests. The six-propeller drone cruises at about the noise level of a passing car; the system picks drone vs. courier based on weather and traffic.

A few extras from the same event: SMS ordering via Apple Messages, Macy's and The North Face joining the marketplace, returns for a flat $8.

Five minutes from grill to doorstep — faster than most people find the TV remote. Engadget reports this calmly, which is somehow the strangest part.

🎬 Dexter is back — midlife crisis included

Paramount+ dropped the Season 2 trailer for *Dexter: Resurrection*. Michael C. Hall returns as Dexter Morgan — older, and apparently dealing with a midlife crisis between kills. He's caught between a seasoned murderer with decades behind him and a brutal newcomer terrorizing New York, while son Harrison (Jack Alcott) runs his own parallel hunt.

New faces include Brian Cox, Dan Stevens and Krysten Ritter. Showrunner Clyde Phillips — who ran the original series — is back in the chair, per Variety. Premiere: October 30 on Paramount+.

After the 2013 finale fans still haven't forgiven, that last detail might matter most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84o1Q6fB20k

🎮 Rockstar bought itself a slice of real Miami

~$1 million to light up the top of Miami's Kaseya Center — home of the NBA's Miami Heat — with "Welcome to Vice City" and the Roman numerals "VI."

The same arena sits in the exact same spot in GTA 6's game world, same ferris wheel next door. The real city and Vice City overlap so cleanly it would've been strange *not* to use it.

It still required a county vote. One commissioner played gameplay footage and argued the game doesn't reflect local values. Commissioner Monica Matteo-Salinas disagreed:

"This is a win for gamers and gaming nerds such as myself."

Passed 4–3. GTA 6 lands on PS5 and Xbox Series on November 19, per IGN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRLujxTm3c

💸 New York just made subscriptions a two-way street

Starting October 1st, NYC has the first municipal click-to-cancel rule in US history: if you can sign up in two clicks, you must be able to cancel the same way. Violations carry penalties from $525, and consumers can claim refunds for charges already pulled from their accounts.

The backstory has a neat irony — this mirrors the national FTC protections designed by former chair Lina Khan, killed by Trump's FTC. Khan now works in the Mamdani administration. The federal door closed; she found a city one.

Planet Fitness, Crunch, La Fitness — per The Verge, the clock is ticking.

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💸 Nvidia is worth more than the entire crypto market. Twice over.

At $5.7 trillion, Nvidia just set an all-time record — for itself and for any company ever. Bitcoin and the whole crypto market combined sit at just above $3 trillion. One chipmaker outweighs all of it.

The stock hit $237.88 on Friday, its first record since May. Three things converged: a $150 billion buyback addition (total $235 billion through 2028, the largest in history), Supermicro shipping Vera Rubin-based server racks packing 72 GPUs each, and a weak jobs report cooling Fed rate-hike bets — which hurts Nvidia's rivals more than Nvidia itself.

Last quarter: $96.2 billion in revenue, up 106% year on year. Guidance for the current quarter: $108 billion. As Jensen Huang put it — "Now, compute is revenue."

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 03

🚁 DoorDash drones delivering Chipotle in under five minutes
🎬 Dexter is back, older, and still very much killing
🎮 Rockstar paid a million bucks to tease GTA 6
💸 NYC forces apps to make canceling as easy as signing up
📈 Nvidia alone is worth twice the entire crypto market

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💡 An AI That Convinces Half of People It's Human

Tavus builds conversational AI avatars. Their new Griffin-Lite just posted a striking number: 26 out of 54 participants finished a one-minute video call believing they'd spoken to a real person. The previous system convinced one out of 41.

Caveat: participants were told they'd meet another human — no one mentioned a bot. Results are self-reported and unverified. On NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark, Griffin-Lite ranks first: 3.83 versus 2.80 for the next-best system.

The model isn't public yet — Tavus is still building safety measures. When the creators themselves won't ship it, that tells you more than any press release. Especially given that North Korea-linked hackers were already running deepfake video calls — with far cruder tools.

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🎬 Nine million Brits watched celebrities betray each other

*Celebrity Traitors* — BBC's reality show where a hidden faction schemes against teammates trying to unmask them — just set a franchise record: 8.8 million viewers at premiere, peaking at 9 million. Every second person watching TV in Britain that evening was watching this.

That's ~3 million more than either previous U.K. launch. Richard E. Grant, Bella Ramsey, Michael Sheen and James Blunt are among this season's castle dwellers — and Grant has apparently turned episode one into his personal chaos workshop, per Variety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCCPWdNC9U

🎬 Four attempts. One finally works.

Brian De Palma's 1976 *Carrie* remains the gold standard. Three revivals — 1999, 2002, 2013 — all failed. Now Mike Flanagan (*Gerald's Game*, *Doctor Sleep*) brings an eight-episode series to Prime Video in 2026, and it actually holds up.

He remixes rather than retells: Carrie enters high school as the new girl for the first time in any version, and Margaret White becomes a crusader against an anonymous Instagram account targeting her daughter. Samantha Sloyan, a Flanagan regular, owns every scene she's in.

After three misfires, the fourth attempt counts.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkUw2nh6fT0

🎬 Disney+ is raising prices for the fourth time in four years

$6.99 in 2019, $21.49 in 2026 — 207% in seven years. Disney+ and Hulu are hiking again, and the real question is what you're getting for it.

Netflix makes originals, Apple TV+ wins awards, Hulu has The Bear and Shogun. Disney+ is mostly running on Marvel, Star Wars, and nostalgia. The ad-supported bundle at $12.49 is the only offer that feels honest.

Raising prices while subscribers cut back on everything else is a bet that habit beats a calculator. Sometimes it does. It's still a risky bet.

Someone in your group chat thinks streaming killed the cable bill. Show them the math.

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 04

🤖 AI fools half of callers into thinking it's human
🗡️ Nine million Brits glued to celebrity backstabbing TV
🩸 Mike Flanagan finally makes a Carrie adaptation worth watching
💸 Disney+ costs 207% more than it did in 2019

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🎬 Elizabeth Holmes let them in — 34 days before prison

Holmes founded Theranos, once valued at $9 billion, on a blood-testing technology that didn't work. Convicted of fraud in 2022, she's now serving an 11-year sentence.

Before it started, she let Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim film her at home. Seven crew members, three cameras, 16-hour days. One wide lens to cover the whole house; two 25–250mm zooms locked on faces. A 4:3 aspect ratio — classic reality-TV throwback — to catch every reaction the moment something landed.

Fielder meant to stay behind the camera. Holmes kept talking to him anyway, so the operators kept panning over. Accidental subject.

"The face is the ultimate landscape," Oppenheim said. When you're trying to decide if someone is telling the truth — and she's a month from prison — that framing earns its keep. Variety has the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44