2025-05-21
40 分钟第 110 季 第 1 集
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It's fall 2016.
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos sits at a back table at Republique.
a casual restaurant in the heart of Los Angeles.
Sarandos nods hello to producers, agents, and actors as they pass by.
The place is known as a hotspot for entertainment power brokers to make deals over avocado toasts and oat milk lattes.
Sarandos spies a reporter from an industry trade magazine sitting in the corner and kicks himself for not picking a more discreet place to go.
If this meeting does go the way Sarandos hopes it will,
He's going to poach one of the most successful television producers working today,
from the network she's called home for over a decade.
But the producer still has over a year left on her current contract,
and if word of this meeting leaks,
well, it could scuttle the whole deal before Sarandos can even make an offer.
The door swings open, and a short,
elegantly dressed woman walks in, her eyes flitting around the room.
Sarandos stands up and greets her.
Shonda Rhimes.
It's a pleasure.
The pleasure is mine.