The ongoing back-and-forth over the future of HBO and its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery calls to mind a line from one of the network's great recent series: the business magnate Logan Roy telling his squabbling children "You are not serious people.

He and Gunnar Weidenfels detail the blockbuster unbundling of WBD: Decision "reflects our belief that each company will go further and faster apart than they can together."

Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders just rejected CEO David Zaslav's pay package. Wall Street thinks a split-up of the company may be next.