Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers

An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, a man sued Apple after finding out that the $22.99 he paid for a season pass of Breaking Bad was only good for the final season's first 8 episodes. ... In light the mix-up, Apple late on Monday began informing folks who purchased a season pass for the 5th season of Breaking Bad that they are entitled to a refund in full in the form of a $22.99 iTunes credit." "Mix-up" seems an entirely charitable description.

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Re:Netflix

[Anonymous Coward]

The last season isn't available on Netflix.

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Apple needs to go after Sony and AMC for the costs

[Ellis D. Tripp]

Apple wasn't responsible for this clusterfuck. It was Sony Pictures TV and AMC.

AMC decided to split Season 5 into 2 halves, to extend Emmy eligibility for another year. But Sony insisted on referring to the 2 years as Season 5A and Season 5B, because that would allow them to get around having to give the actors and production staff the contractually mandated pay increase for each new season.

So we have 2 separate definitions for what constitutes a "season", depending on what provides the corporate interests the maximum benefit. They figured that they will make more money separating the DVD sets into 2 releases, so that's what they did.

Somebody really needs to go all Heisenberg on their asses....