"This wasn't supposed to happen."-- Claire Foy, winner of the Best Actress in a Drama award for Netflix's The Crown, at the 2018 EmmysIn the weeks leading up the 2018 Emmy Awards, AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson dismissed competition from streaming pioneer Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), saying, "I think of Netflix kind of as the Walmart of SVOD (subscription video on demand), HBO is kind of Tiffany.