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Short Attention Span Theater: A Quick Look At Quibi's Launch Titles

The streaming service "designed specifically for your phone" launches with 50 shows — and over 100 more on the way. Here are our highlights from the opening batch.
Two chefs get blasted in the face with a mystery entree on <em>Dishmantled</em>. I smell a Peabody! No, wait — marinara sauce. My mistake.

The streaming service Quibi — short for "quick bites" — calls itself "the first entertainment platform designed specifically for your phone."

Translation: They're doling out their shows in 7-to-10-minute chunks — er, episodes — at a rate of one per day. Quick bites, get it? Perfect for the busy, distracted, on-the-go consumer! Too bad none of us are on-the-going anywhere these days.

Quibi divides its shows into three categories: Movies in Chapters (read: serialized narrative), Unscripted and Documentaries (read: episodic nonfiction) and Daily Essentials.

None of the "Daily Essentials" were available to screen before launch, but these will evidently focuswould be worth checking out.)

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