Don’t watch shows. Watch videos essays from people with philosophy degrees. Watch the videos where they talk about scary things being applied to your life. Or ask questions you’re scared to ask and look for information about it. Gl
Bro, sometimes you just need to take a break from all of that and watch something dumb. The “bread and circus” is real, but you shouldn’t completely abstain from it either. Use it to rest and recharge when you can
You’re the one that wanted “deep”. If you think that gob bluth is a paragon of truth go ahead. Just don’t eat French fries and call it vegetables.
Over the Garden Wall
I think you’re asking for someone to say a particular thing so I take the bait and say: The Leftovers.
BoJack Horseman
This is the 3rd time I’ve seen something relating to Bojack today, might be time for a rewatch lmao
“Stupid Piece of Shit” is great for asking people if this is how they think. Some people don’t know they have depression from critical thinking.
Another easy answer would be Six Feet Under. This show has the most beautiful finale.
The Bear. The show is just a bunch of people trying to process the grief of traumatic life experiences while simultaneously trying to survive the loss of a beloved person in common. All this through the power of cooking and yelling very loudly. The food is awesome though.
Genddy Tartakovsky’s Primal. The show is visceral and intense and forces you to acknowledge that you and anything around you can lose everything in the snap of fingers, for no real reason except “thats just how life is sometimes”. And it does this despite having no comprehensible dialog.
The Good Place. The end makes me cry.
As the show went on, I ketp thinking that it was so good, and the end was going to ruin it. That it had to have an end, and there’s no way it could be satisfying.
And then it was perfect, and I loved it, and I watched the whole series over again.
Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist. The way it shows the characters most intimate thoughts that they try to conceal from the world.
Tribal Trails.
The Good Place
The Midnight Gospel, particularly the finale
Now that is a name I haven’t heard in a long time, I’m going to have to watch that again
Peacemaker
Mmm… Berserk (1997) was the first thing that came to mind.
Not a show, but a book and a movie adaptation: Interview with A Vampire is actually about Anne Rice’s daughter.
I was a sad, broken and despairing atheist when I wrote ‘Interview with the Vampire’ [in 1973, after the death of her daughter from leukaemia]. I pitched myself into writing and made up a story about vampires. I didn’t know it at the time but it was all about my daughter, the loss of her and the need to go on living when faith is shattered. But the lights do come back on, no matter how dark it seems, and I’m sensitive now, more than ever, to the beauty of the world – and more resigned to living with cosmic uncertainty.
Vampires are the best metaphor for the human condition Here you have a monster with a soul that’s immortal, yet in a biological body. It’s a metaphor for us, as it’s very difficult to realise that we are going to die, and day to day we have to think and move as though we are immortal. A vampire like Lestat in Interview… is perfect for that because he transcends time – yet he can be destroyed, go mad and suffer; it’s intensely about the human dilemma.
