Quibi Serves Tepid Hollywood Moralizing in Tiny Doses, but No One Is Biting

A stench of desperation permeates the manic buffet of content available on Quibi, the mobile-only streaming service born from the groundbreaking insight that people are on their phones a lot. Short for “quick bites,” Quibi has spent over a billion dollars marshalling celebrities, writers, and comedians to create slick, miniature TV shows with episodes that run about six minutes long, designed to kill time between other, more important activities. It is a deeply cynical proposition: e