If you’re confused about how the writers’ and actors’ strikes currently crippling the entertainment industry affect you, you are not alone. Variety’s Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister is here to provide an accessible and expert break down of what the current Hollywood work stoppage – the first double-union strike in over 60 years – means for audiences, and the movies and TV we can’t live without. The showdown between writers and actors, and the studios who employ them, is truly a tale of two stories in both expectations and outcomes.

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