Weekly Catchup

What We Have Been Watching:

Television:

Wednesday:

  • Fantastic! It stands on its own really well.
  • You don’t have to be a fan of the Addams Family to enjoy it
  • Very interesting mystery, that always keeps you guessing
  • Acting is superb, Jenna Ortega makes Wednesday her own, yet keeps with the character
  • It’s like adult Harry Potter for more mystical outcasts
  • Highly recommend

What We Do In The Shadows

  • Finally got back into…lol
  • Season 2 really picks things up
  • Loving the Guillermo twist so far

Drink Masters

  • Fuuuuuuun!

GBBO

  • How was the season?!

Flipping 101

Black Panther:

Emily’s Review:

Intermission

THE DEVIL THAT IS TICKETMASTER:

Michelle’s Taylor Swift Ticket Travesty Rant

  • The New Verified Fan System is an absolute JOKE
  • Previous Verified Fan experiences during the REPUTATION Tour saw the least amount of scalpers and bots (2018)
  • Justice Dept. Is Said to Investigate Ticketmaster’s Parent Company
  • Live Nation merged with TIcketmaster…making it a monopoly on the industry
  • They also own the resell platform and they are encouraging it
  • With Anticipating 1.5 million presale fans, 14 mill people were on Ticketmaster day of sale for tickets…they let anyone join the queue first, and you add the codes after waiting in line, which means bots and scalpers, anyone could enter the line.
  • The “verified fan” platform was created in 2017 to help Ticketmaster handle situations of enormous demand, but as more than 3.5 million people pre-registered to be a Swift “verified fan” the system became overwhelmed. That’s the largest registration in the company’s history, according to Ticketmaster.
  • “Historically, working with ‘Verified Fan’ invite codes has worked as we’ve been able to manage the volume coming into the site to shop for tickets,” the company wrote on Thursday in a blog post that has since been taken down. “However, this time the staggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn’t have invite codes drove unprecedented traffic on our site.”
  • “Ticketmaster noted on Thursday that more than two million tickets were sold Tuesday for Swift’s upcoming tour — the most ever for an artist in a single day. The company also said that demand for tickets to the Eras Tour was twice that of 2022’s top five tours and the Super Bowl combined.
  • “Based on the volume of traffic to our site, Taylor would need to perform over 900 stadium shows (almost 20x the number of shows she is doing),” Ticketmaster wrote on Thursday. “That’s a stadium show every single night for the next 2.5 years.”