It’s The End Of Daze

John Kilar spent the last decade pushing television toward something it didn’t entirely want to become. First at Hulu, then Viacom—always the guy trying to drag legacy media into the streaming era while the industry fought him tooth and nail. He made his bets. Some paid off. Others just made people angry. There’s something almost sad about watching an executive’s grand vision get slowly dismantled by the same people who hired him, especially when he was probably right about what was coming. By the time he left, nobody was talking about the vision anymore. Just the exit. That’s usually how it goes.