When the actor calls Fielder a “man with a grudge using his television show to smear us,” it serves as a built-in rebuttal to Fielder’s metaphor. (Sources indicate to Variety that Paramount+ was not given a head’s up about this storyline by the show or HBO. Presumably, the episode was cleared by HBO’s legal department before release, as is standard procedure with satirical content involving real corporations.)
Contacted by Variety, Paramount+ did not comment. A spokesperson for the company declined to address any further questions, including Fielder’s depiction of Paramount+ as Nazi Germany, why the episode failed to meet its standards or whether it will ever be put back on the platform.