The original post: /r/television by /u/jakeyenor on 2025-05-31 01:11:52.
On a whim I edited Josh Holloway’s characters name on the Wikipedia page for the HBO Max series Duster to claim he was actually named Duster changing it from Jim Ellis to Jim “Duster” Ellis.
Never once in the show is he referred to as “Duster”. It is not his name, it is the name of the show (the model of car he drives). It didn’t stop multiple media websites including The Ringer & CinemaBlend (and a number of clickbait sites) when doing write-ups to refer to him by this completely false name.
Making it clear they never actually watched the show, even while praising the show’s quality such as in the CinemaBlend piece.
“Duster doesn’t have all the visual panache of a QT joint, but the spirit is there. Holloway plays Jim “Duster” Ellis, driver for crime boss Ezra Saxton (Keith David). Duster gets apprehended by the FBI and potentially turned, as FBI agent Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson) tells him that Saxton was the one who killed Duster’s brother.”
We’re not just in a golden age of TV. We’re also in a golden age of pretending to watch it.