ESPN fans are accustomed to tuning into its networks to watch people take shots — but maybe not quite like this.
A new spot for the sports leviathan takes Netflix to task, dismissing a fictional streaming-movie service like it for a “silly algorithm” that can’t compete with the attraction of live sports.
“So your streaming algorithm thinks you’ll like this film about a diamond heist. But unlike you, it didn’t just think, ‘Duh, the Warriors game is on,’” according to the voiceover of a woman sitting on her couch flipping through options on fictional streaming service “Moviez.”
It kicks off with the slogan: “Movies can wait, because movies aren’t real.”