Monkey See 6:57 am Tue May 22, 2012  Kevin Smith's 'Spoilers'
Comes To Hulu  Hulu isn't content being your source of Saturday
Night Live clips and full episodes of Glee. Like Netflix, they
have one eye on original content, and one of their recent
announcements is that they're bringing you a movie review show —
wait, an anti-movie-review show — called Spoilers, starring
Kevin Smith (the writer-director behind Clerks, Chasing Amy, and
Dogma, among others).  (Aside #1: I'm sorry that people outside
the U.S. can't legally view Hulu stuff. I wish it were
otherwise, but for the moment, we're a bit stuck acknowledging
the limitation.)  This teaser trailer, I have to admit, already
makes me tired, but I think that has more to do with how manic
it is than with any problem with what they're proposing. The
play here is pretty sensible — they're trying to do with an
online show what a lot of people (including Smith) have
successfully done with podcasts: get people to follow a
personality they like to a product they have