I have mixed thoughts. Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition. However I love movies (check my profile if you want proof) and specifically I love going to the movie theater. Paramount has continued supporting movie theaters which is more than you can say about Netflix and Sarandos. Likewise Zaslav was just making anti-consuner decisions left and right. I can count on more than one hand the amount of times I've called that man a piece of shit. Not to mention Netflix's slavish attachment to "the algorithm" just churns out a lot of slop

So while the merger is bad it's probably the better of the two options and anything that reduces David Zaslav's power is a net positive in my book, even if he makes a small country's worth of money doing it