Chet Haze the smart one in the Hanks "family"?

Tom Hanks is executive producer of CNN's series "The Movies".

It's astonishing to me that people are gushing over this crap. If the internet is to be believed, the public loves CNN's The Movies.

Surely this isn't sincere. Looking online, the comments enthusing over the series are too slick. Like they're all from CNN itself.

Even the people who don't like it are being overly polite.

From Indiewire:

Any self-respecting TCM watcher is too sophisticated for this breezy look at “The Movies.” Clearly the producers are trying to draw younger audiences who might be vaguely familiar with some of the movies here, from Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” to Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull.” (Both directors are on hand to comment.) Snobby old Hollywood lovers sometimes forget that for today’s 18-year-old film fan devouring classic films made before they were born, Tom Cruise’s “Risky Business” is more ancient than Frank Capra’s “It Happened One Night” was to their counterpart in 1970.