The key might be that (afaik) HBO Max is distributing this Canadian-produced series (made for the streamer Crave), which lessens some of the liability for the USA side of things. It will be delightful to see it hit a large audience, and as you say, what might come next!

definitely stopping for lunch now, I scrolled down and there's an italicised ibid, no full stop, where previously they'd all been at least formatted in plain text and with the expected punctuation

i'm sure people who love their cute little latin abbreviations are good and upstanding people, but if i can't do a breezy copy/paste from your previous in-text citation to bring things in line with the style guide, maybe there's something wrong

i'm crying

it does mean that my teaching notebook has some chocolate flakes smeared on the pages #noregrets

yeah, not great! I wasn't a big user anyway - maybe logging in a couple times/year? - and having an account just to have an account doesn't seem worth it in light of these changes